Food Stamps cut to pay for Teachers...

Billions to banks, car manufacturers, defense contracts and fossil fuel subsides...

Fox News - House members convened Tuesday and passed the multi-billion-dollar bailout bill for cash-strapped states that provides $10 billion to school districts to rehire laid-off teachers or ensure that more teachers won't be let go before the new school year begins. .

But the bill also requires that $12 billion be stripped from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps, to help fund the new bill, prompting some Democrats to cringe at the notion of cutting back on one necessity to pay for another. The federal assistance program currently helps 41 million Americans.

Mark this day as "the day we chose to take from the poor"

"The consequences of poverty build on themselves," Palfrey says, "so that the outcomes can be felt for years to come USA Today

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U.S. Food Stamp FAQ's - Via USDA.gov

• 49 percent of all participants are children (18 or younger), and 61 percent of them live in single-parent households.
• 76 percent of all benefits go to households with children, 16 percent go to households with disabled persons, and 9 percent go to households with elderly persons.
• 33 percent of households with children were headed by a single parent, the overwhelming majority of which were headed by women.
• The average gross monthly income per SNAP household is $673.
  

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