Food budgets poised to shrink for more than 1 million households under proposed SNAP cuts
“Hundreds of thousands of Americans may soon have less money for groceries. Provisions in the House Farm Bill poised to cut funding to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits could trim much as $50 to $75 per month from monthly food budgets for 800,000 to 1.1 million families. The estimated impact of the cuts comes from an analysis by New Jersey-based policy research organization Mathematica, which is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a health philanthropy.”