Food Assistance News feed http://www.cbpp.org/topic/?fa=topic&id=31 en-us Copyright 2008 Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. All rights reserved. Fri, 18 May 2012 20:00:03 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-FoodAssistance/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Fri, 18 May 2012 15:03:30 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-FoodAssistance/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Thu, 17 May 2012 14:34:28 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 No one should underestimate the significance of House Speaker John Boehner's declaration yesterday that he will block an increase in the debt limit next winter unless policymakers match each dollar of debt limit increase with at least a dollar in budget cuts, with no revenue increases. This standard, which key Republican leaders have said they will insist on for all future debt limit increases, would both produce extreme policies and repeat these lawmakers' hostage-taking strategy of last … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-FoodAssistance/~3/r9n6ZQAkaVE/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3779 Wed, 16 May 2012 17:21:26 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3779 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-FoodAssistance/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Thu, 10 May 2012 12:40:22 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Several conservative analysts and some journalists lately have cited figures showing substantial growth in recent years in the cost of federal programs for low-income Americans. These figures can create the mistaken impression that growth in low-income programs is a major contributor to the nation’s long-term fiscal problems. In reality, virtually all of the recent growth in spending for means-tested programs is due to two factors: the economic downturn and rising costs … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-FoodAssistance/~3/JwgjOKTFDco/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3772 Thu, 10 May 2012 11:25:00 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3772 The Senate may take up, as early as this week, a budget proposal from Senator Patrick J. Toomey (R-PA)[1] that is similar in most important respects to the budget resolution from House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), which the House passed on March 29. [2] Like the Ryan budget, the Toomey plan (S. Con. Res. 37) would protect and extend tax cuts that disproportionately benefit higher-income Americans, while reducing deficits through steep cuts in programs that benefit … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-FoodAssistance/~3/pQRvOtwtO6g/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3771 Wed, 09 May 2012 13:06:59 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3771 Thank you for the invitation to testify today. I am Stacy Dean, Vice President for Food Assistance Policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan policy institute located here in Washington. The Center is an independent, non-profit policy institute that conducts research and analysis on a range of federal and state policy issues affecting low- and moderate-income families. The Center's food assistance work focuses on improving the effectiveness of the major … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-FoodAssistance/~3/pmvDWdGE398/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3768 Tue, 08 May 2012 11:03:35 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3768 The House Budget Committee is expected to approve on May 7 a package of two bills that would alter the bipartisan deal between President Obama and congressional leaders that was reflected in last summer’s Budget Control Act (BCA). It would eliminate the “sequestration” (automatic cuts) in discretionary programs scheduled for 2013 as a result of the failure of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (the “supercommittee”) to achieve $1.2 trillion in … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-FoodAssistance/~3/H5MA7i8ErSk/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3767 Mon, 07 May 2012 13:58:51 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3767 To help generate the savings required by the House-approved budget, the House Ways and Means Committee voted on April 18 to eliminate the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG), a uniquely flexible funding source that helps states meet the specialized needs of their most vulnerable populations, primarily low- and moderate-income children and people who are elderly or disabled (see Figure 1 and Appendix A).[1] States use the $1.7 billion-a-year grant to support services designed to help people … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-FoodAssistance/~3/DbY2zluLw1U/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3765 Thu, 03 May 2012 18:45:13 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3765 To help generate the savings required by the House-approved budget, the House Ways and Means Committee voted on April 18 to eliminate the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG), a uniquely flexible funding source that helps states meet the specialized needs of their most vulnerable populations, primarily low- and moderate-income children and people who are elderly or disabled (see Figure 1 and Appendix A).[1] States use the $1.7 billion-a-year grant to support services designed to help people … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-FoodAssistance/~3/DbY2zluLw1U/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3765 Thu, 03 May 2012 17:31:07 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3765 House committees this week approved sharp cuts in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps), the elimination of the Social Services Block Grant, and other cuts that would harm large numbers of low- and moderate-income Americans.[1] Proponents claim the cuts are needed to generate enough savings to avert an automatic cut in defense spending of nearly $55 billion scheduled for next January, which they say would harm national security. (Last … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-FoodAssistance/~3/3hfbMX06AQM/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3752 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:31:30 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3752 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-FoodAssistance/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:56:40 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 The House Agriculture Committee, which the House-approved budget requires to quickly produce $33 billion in savings over the next decade, approved a proposal today that would obtain the entire amount from cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps.[1] The cuts — which would come on top of another proposal in the House budget to cut SNAP by $133 billion over the next decade and convert it to a block grant — would reduce or … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-FoodAssistance/~3/0eG4L4F7fTY/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3749 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:10:10 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3749 The House majority is pursuing legislation this week that makes no economic sense. The full House will pass a $46 billion tax cut that’s advertised as a “job-creating” measure, while the House Agriculture Committee approved a plan today to save $36 billion by cutting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps). Virtually the entire tax cut as well as about $8 billion of the SNAP cuts would take place in 2012-2013.… http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-FoodAssistance/~3/-IHd9xWPI18/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3750 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:50:58 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3750 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-FoodAssistance/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:11:18 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Thank you for the invitation to testify today. I am Bob Greenstein, head of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a policy institute located here in Washington. I also served many years ago as Administrator of the Food and Nutrition Service at USDA, which operates SNAP (then called food stamps) and other domestic food assistance programs My testimony covers several related issues: a look at the functioning of the safety net as a whole; a more intensive focus on … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-FoodAssistance/~3/8I8SP0n81rY/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3745 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:26:09 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3745 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-FoodAssistance/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:44:29 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-FoodAssistance/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:25:13 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the nation's most important anti-hunger program.  SNAP reaches millions of people in need of food assistance.  It is one of the few means-tested government benefit programs available to almost all households with low incomes.  For more detail on the program's basics, see http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=2226. SNAP is an efficient part of the nationwide safety net.  Payment accuracy – the delivery of the … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-FoodAssistance/~3/NEDRIctiFkI/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3744 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 11:38:38 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3744 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-FoodAssistance/~3/UBrnwCVebd4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:22:38 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3184 Below is a compilation of the CBPP blog posts to date on House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s new budget. Check back here frequently, as we will update this list as we put out new material. http://bit.ly/RyanPosts Overview/General Greenstein Statement March 21, 2012 "The new Ryan budget is a remarkable document — one that, for most of the past half-century, would have been outside the bounds of mainstream discussion due to its extreme nature. In … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-FoodAssistance/~3/4uXIhaz1NcE/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3726 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:38:38 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3726 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-FoodAssistance/~3/TVi9UX0i5Vo/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3725 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:43:14 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3725 House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s budget plan would get at least 62 percent of its $5.3 trillion in nondefense budget cuts over ten years (relative to a continuation of current policies) from programs that serve people of limited means. This stands a core principle of President Obama’s fiscal commission on its head and violates basic principles of fairness. Not much has changed on this front from Chairman Ryan’s fiscal year 2012 budget plan released a … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-FoodAssistance/~3/YOOHU8zDPls/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3723 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:15:01 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3723 Read on Off the Charts Blog Millions of people would lose part or all of their SNAP (food stamp) benefits under House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s new budget, a new CBPP analysis shows. The Ryan plan would cut SNAP — the nation’s most important anti-hunger program — by $133.5 billion or more than 17 percent over the next ten years. (Click here for the state-by-state impact.) Since more than 90 percent of SNAP expenditures are for food … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-FoodAssistance/~3/36J3TOWAIuo/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3721 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:53:25 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3721 House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s budget plan includes cuts in SNAP (formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) of $133.5 billion — more than 17 percent — over the next ten years (2013-2022),[1] which would necessitate ending assistance for millions of low-income families, cutting benefits for millions of such households, or some combination of the two. Chairman Ryan proposed a similarly deep SNAP cut last year. While Chairman Ryan has outlined some key … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-FoodAssistance/~3/J0sljnpvFkc/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3717 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:41:13 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3717