Divided House Panel OKs New Work, Job Training Requirements For Food Stamps

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A bitterly-divided House panel Wednesday approved new work and job training requirements for food stamps as part of a five-year renewal of federal farm and nutrition policy.

The GOP-run Agriculture Committee approved the measure strictly along party lines after a contentious, five-hour hearing in which Democrats blasted the legislation, charging it would toss up to 2 million people off of food stamps and warning that it will never pass Congress.

The hard-fought food stamp provisions would tighten existing work requirements and expand funding for state training programs, though not by enough to cover everybody subject to the new work and training requirements.

Agriculture panel chair Michael Conaway said the provisions would offer food stamp beneficiaries “the hope of a job and a skill and a better future for themselves and their families.”

At issue is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which provides food aid for more than 40 million people, with benefits averaging about $450 a month for a family of four.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/agriculture-committee-approves-work-job-training-requirements-food-stamps


This sick and twisted fucking right wing bunch, should take a fucking pay cut and live on rent and food stamps per month at $450.00 per month.........................Starting with this asshole Conway......................FUCK YOU.............

November 2018 cannot get here fast enough

[notdarkyet]

1. Sick of you sick fcks. FU.

[blogslut]

2. You know what never is included in these "make them work for it" bills?

JOB TRAINING programs

[atreides1]

3. That's intentional

It will guarantee that people will be dropped from the program, because they are unable to meet requirements that Congress has left unfunded, on purpose!!!

[Eyeball_Kid]

5. Yeah. And then what?

Cadaver wagons that pick up bodies on the curbside every morning? Then GOPers will blame the starved and sickened dead for dying.

Idiots. Cruel and evil idiots.

[Eyeball_Kid]

4. This is a bureaucratic nightmare of unseen proportions.

Work for food stamps? Doesn't anyone realize that a large percentage of food stamp recipients are ALREADY WORKING?! Another large percentage are from fragmented families where it will be more expensive for parents to work for food stamps than it will be for them to manage their families (because the children will have to go to costly DAY CARE when parents work!) And yet another slice of the food stamp population are disabled and will have to PROVE that they are disabled (when they already have done so!). So, it's the "small government" GOP that intends on expanding government meddling into the private lives of citizens in order to LOOK like they're small government enthusiasts. ALL of the GOPers' requirements for working to get food stamps will be contested, causing huge bottlenecks of access to legitimate aid.

And get this: I'm a retired person with NO special access to economic or political information, AND I CAN FIGURE IT OUT.

WTF is wrong with these Congressional assholes?

[bluestarone]

6. Fuck! It's going to be a long two years!!!!!

[lame54]

7. Many who use food stamps...

Already work

[world wide wally]

8. Yeah, but how else can we pay for Trumps tax cut?

We must all sacrifice for the Amber Assholes benefit if we want to MAGA