{"id":100085,"date":"2013-12-20T08:53:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T08:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/americans-face-8bn-food-stamp-cuts\/"},"modified":"2013-12-20T14:35:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T14:35:14","slug":"americans-face-8bn-food-stamp-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/americans-face-8bn-food-stamp-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans face $8bn food stamp cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US lawmakers are considering a compromise five-year farm bill that would cut the food stamp program by $8 billion over the next 10 years.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) told Reuters on Thursday that changing eligibility rules and disqualifying up to 4 million Americans who depend on food stamps would also help the US government save $40 billion over a decade.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the new US farm bill, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives proposed to cut nearly $40 billion from nutrition programs, the largest cuts in a generation. However, the Democratic-controlled Senate voted to reduce food-stamp funding by $4.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Food stamp benefits are the most politically contentious component of the first US farm bill since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c5\u201cFrom everything I&#8217;ve seen, we are now within a few items of having this agreed to,\u201d said Harkin who is a member of the select committee responsible for reconciling the bills passed by the two chambers of the US Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Activists want to know whether the select committee has agreed to change eligibility rules in exchange for the relatively small cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, US lawmakers failed to pass a new farm bill and approved a one-year extension of the 2008 bill which expired in September.<\/p>\n<p>If lawmakers on Capitol Hill fail to bring a new bill to the floor in January, Scott Faber of the Environmental Working Group said, Americans will \u00c5\u201cbe looking at a two-year extension&#8221; of the now-expired 2008 law.<\/p>\n<p>The Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program provides food stamps for nearly 48 million Americans.<\/p>\n<p>ISH\/ISH<\/p>\n<p>With permission<br \/>\nSource: <a title=\"Americans face $8bn food stamp cuts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/12\/20\/340963\/americans-to-see-8bn-food-stamps-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US lawmakers are considering a compromise five-year farm bill that would cut the food stamp program by $8 billion over the next 10 years. Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) told Reuters on Thursday that changing eligibility rules and disqualifying up to 4 million Americans who depend on food stamps would also help the US government save [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-100085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}