If we have any function in this Congress, it ought to be to making sure that the least among us are not forgotten.
But if that is where all of this is going, that is bad news for poor people, and it is bad news for the vulnerable populations that our witn...
This reflects a failure of government to respond adequately.
these so-called reforms have been put into place. But, no one in Congress is on food stamps, no one is on SNAP.
there would be 60,000 veterans, is the best estimates that we have been able to gather, that would lose their benefits.
We have known for a long time that Speaker Ryan supports block-granting SNAP. We have seen it year after year in his budgets.
We live in the richest country in the history of the world, and we have a big chunk of our population that doesn't know whether they can put...
Charities can't do this alone.
many of these poor individuals who will be cut off are veterans, they have honorably served our country, and some of them are now deeply str...
These people are not lazy.
It is not a boon, it is, in fact, a very limited existence.