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Trump wants to slash food stamps and replace them with a ‘Blue Apron-type program’
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Feb 13, 2018 09:48am |
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| Category | Proposed Legislation |
| Author | Caitlin Dewey |
| News Date | Tuesday, February 13, 2018 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Trump administration wants to slash food aid to low-income families and make up the difference with a box of canned goods — a change that Office of Management and budget director Mick Mulvaney described in a Monday briefing as a “Blue Apron-type program.”
“It boggles the mind how that would play out,” said Kathy Fisher, policy director at Philadelphia’s Coalition Against Hunger. “We know SNAP works now, when people can choose what they need. How they would distribute foods to people with specialized diets, or [to people in] rural areas … It’s very expensive and very complicated.”
The proposal is also likely to enrage food retailers — particularly Walmart, Target and Aldi — that stand to lose billions if food stamp benefits are cut, analysts say. On Monday, the Food Marketing Institute, a trade association for grocery stores, condemned the Harvest Box proposal as expensive, inefficient and unlikely to generate any long-term government savings. |
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