The Food Stamps program is used by 42 million Americans, that is, one in eight US residents. Benefits for the poor will be cut sharply from $235 to $95 a month. At the same time, there are no plans to cut aid to Ukraine. Valetin Bogdanov, chief of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company in New York, reports this on the Telegram channel “Especially for RT”.
Formally, everything is tied to the Covid-10 epidemic, benefits increased against the background of the pandemic, and now they are decreasing. Cash payments are reduced with the knowledge of the US Congress. In which the information agenda circles around Ukraine.
“All changes in the status of applicants were frozen under Trump in March 2020. Now they are being unfrozen. But in such a way that America is shivering. <…> At risk, as usual, are colored and African Americans. Areas of their compact residence. In Atlanta, Georgia, attendance at soup kitchens for the poor has increased by a third in the past few weeks. The queues for free food, which are distributed in the so-called food banks, have also grown in other states”, the VGTRK chief bureau reports.
It is noteworthy that the list with those in need is headed by the liberal (that is, pro-democratic) states where they voted for Biden. The number of future victims of the reduction is staggering. California – 2.93 million people; New York – 1.61 million; Texas – 1.34 million; Illinois – 1.06 million; Pennsylvania – 1.04 million people and so on. The decision seems doubly cynical against the backdrop of rising inflation and food prices.
Bogdanov notes that this is not about those who deliberately become a parasite, refusing any productive work, counting on the care of the state. A large number of recipients of Food Stamps are the working poor who have lived in deep poverty for generations. It is officially recognized that these people have no hope for the future. The Congressional Budget Office projects that total food stamp spending will remain the same for the next decade. But it’s a question of priorities. Where is the best place to spend money? On a corrupt country that is located across the ocean, or on its citizens.
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