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URGE YOUR STATE LAWMAKERS TO PROTECT ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAMS AND INCREASE REVENUE
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state house released its budget this week and the senate is expected to
release theirs soon. The house budget maintained funding for the
Emergency Food Assistance Program (which helps to keep the lights on and
shelves stocked at food banks), school nutrition (free and reduced
breakfast and lunch) and the Farmer’s Market Nutrition Program (which
provides vouchers to low-income women, infants, children and seniors to
purchase fresh produce at farmer’s markets). It did not fully fund the
State Food Assistance Program (the state food stamp look-alike program
for legal immigrants), instead continuing to fund the program at 50%.
The budget also failed to provide significant additional revenue sources. By foregoing this discussion, the necessary decision of additional revenue and a more balanced approach to solving our current and long-term budget challenges is only delayed. It merely places a band-aid on a hemorrhage that none of us can stop with spending cuts alone. Click the link below to send a letter to your lawmakers and: 1. Thank them for preserving some important anti-hunger programs. 2. Ask them to fully fund the State Food Assistance Program. 3. Adopt additional sources of revenue to provide a more balanced approach to solving our budget deficit now and in the future. |
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