Sign Letter Opposing Food Stamp Cuts - Action Needed Immeditately

From the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC)

Action Needed: Sign the National, State and Community-based Organizational Letter Opposing SNAP/Food Stamp Cuts (Deadline Extended to: Thursday, August 5 at Noon ET)

SNAP/Food Stamps on Chopping Block, Again Senate Leaders Contemplate Proposal to Cut Billions from Future SNAP Benefits

Disturbing news coming out of the Senate includes proposals to cut billions from future SNAP/Food Stamp benefits to offset part of the cost for other legislative priorities. FRAC, along with other national groups, strongly opposes using SNAP funding to pay for other programs -- regardless of the merits of those proposals. SNAP/Food Stamp cuts should never be used as a way to pay for legislation.

To push back against these efforts, FRAC is circulating a national, state and community-based organization sign-on letter.

Click here to view and sign your organization onto the letter.

Congressional leaders and the White House need to hear a strong message from groups across the country that Congress should not be making it even harder for struggling families to purchase healthy food.

Deadline Extended to: Thursday, August 5 at Noon ET.
(Depending on the Senate's schedule, this deadline may be extended. Still, we urge you to act IMMEDIATELY and to circulate this alert.)

Background on Proposals to Cut SNAP/Food Stamps
The proposals would cut short a boost in benefits included in the Economic Recovery Act and return benefits to lower levels at which families often run out of food in the third or early in the fourth week of the month. The cut would increase hunger and obesity by making it even harder for struggling families to purchase healthy, adequate, food.

Taking money from the neediest seniors, children and households in America is not an acceptable way to pay for other legislative priorities - regardless of the merits of those proposals. Economists and lawmakers agreed that the higher benefit level is needed to fight hunger and grow the economy. This is an investment we should protect, not raid.