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Lawmakers Find $21 a Week Doesn't Buy a Lot of Groceries
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Contributor | RP |
Last Edited | RP Jul 21, 2011 08:19pm |
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Category | Study |
Author | Lyndsey Layton |
Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
News Date | Thursday, May 17, 2007 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
Description | Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) stood before the refrigerated section of the Safeway on Capitol Hill yesterday and looked longingly at the eggs.
At $1.29 for a half-dozen, he couldn't afford them.
Ryan and three other members of Congress have pledged to live for one week on $21 worth of food, the amount the average food stamp recipient receives in federal assistance. That's $3 a day or $1 a meal. They started yesterday.
Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) and Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (R-Mo.), co-chairmen of the House Hunger Caucus, called on lawmakers to take the "Food Stamp Challenge" to raise awareness of hunger and what they say are inadequate benefits for food stamp recipients. Only two others, Ryan and Janice Schakowsky (D-Ill.), took them up on it. |
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