No Cuts to Food Stamps to Pay for Child Nutrition

Please contact your House of Representatives member to let her/him know that making cuts to food stamps to fund child nutrition is unacceptable.

This week, the House may vote to pass the Senate's version of child nutrition reauthorization. This bill includes $2.2 billion in cuts to future SNAP/food stamp benefits.

Anti-hunger advocates are urging the House to abandon this approach and pass a good child nutrition bill at a later time that improves access to healthy food without cutting SNAP/food stamp benefits.

With the Senate's bill, a family of four can expect their food stamps to drop about $59 a month starting in April 2013. Since 40% of all food stamp recipients in NYS are children, we may be helping nutrition at the school cafeteria line, but we are hindering nutrition at the dinner table.

It is critical that House members overwhelmingly hear from you. Your representative should not support a child nutrition bill that makes cuts to food stamps. Please call your Member of Congress and urge her/him to speak out, to weigh in with House leadership, and to vote against an effort to pass a child nutrition bill that makes cuts to food stamps.

Join the numerous groups not in favor of cutting SNAP/food stamps to fund child nutrition. They include:

• Over 1,600 national, state, and local organizations (click here for a list)
• 6 major national unions and national anti-poverty groups (click here)
• National women's advocacy groups (click here for a list)
• The American Public Human Services Association (click here)
• AARP, Voices for America's Children, and FRAC (click here)
• 16 House members of the NYS delegation and 90 others nationally (click here)