- Food stamp cuts may force 1 million into “hardship”, By Aimee Picchi, January 7, 2015, CBS News: “As states tighten their eligibility requirements for food stamps, that may leave as many as 1 million adults facing ‘serious hardship’ next year, according to a new forecast. Some of the country’s poorest will be struck from the rolls in 2016 as states re-impose work requirements that they had allowed to lapse when the recession struck in 2007, according to a new report from the progressive-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a think tank…”
- 1 million expected to lose food stamps as economy improves, By Gregory Wallace, January 6, 2015, CNNMoney: “A side effect of the improving economy: About 1 million needy people will lose food stamp benefits starting this fall. That’s a new estimate by a left-leaning think tank, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which is urging Congress to change a federal law that limits how long someone can receive food stamps when they are out of a job…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty