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President Must Stop Making Children ‘Targets for Cuts’; Latest Proposal Would Strip More Than Six Million Children of SNAP Benefits
The controversy centers on a proposal unveiled on Tuesday by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The department put forward a federal rule change designed to eliminate "Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility," a long-standing policy mechanism that empowers individual states to provide Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits—formerly known as food stamps—to low-income households that already…
