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"In what can be seen only as an act of supreme indifference, House Republicans passed a bill on Thursday that would drastically cut federal food stamps and throw 3.8 million Americans out of the program in 2014.
The vote came two weeks after the Agriculture Department reported that 17.6 million households did not have enough to eat at some point in 2012 because they lacked the resources to put food on the table. It came two days after the Census Bureau reported that 15 percent of Americans, or 46.5 million people, live in poverty.
These numbers were basically unchanged from 2011, but in a growing economy steady rates of hunger and poverty amount, in effect, to backsliding."
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Another Insult to the Poor
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cold cuts.
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SEE ALSO:
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Red State Pain
THE NEW YORK TIMES: The House Republicans’ Ghoulish Defunding Rally
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