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House Democrats fail to block cuts to food stamp program

A scene from Hunger Action Day, California's largest annual anti-hunger rally and advocacy event. Alameda County Community Food Bank / Flickr

Democrats failed on Wednesday to block Republican attempts to cut billions of dollars in food assistance to poor American families, having earlier denounced the plans as an “abomination” and “immoral”. The Republicans included the $16bn (£10.3bn) cut to the food stamp programme over the next decade as part of a…

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Democrats call food stamp cuts ‘immoral’

A scene from Hunger Action Day, California's largest annual anti-hunger rally and advocacy event. Alameda County Community Food Bank / Flickr

Republican attempts to cut billions of dollars in food assistance to poor American families have been denounced as an “abomination” and “immoral” by Democrats who have vowed to block the measure in Congress. The cuts, part of a five-year farm bill under debate in the House of Representatives agricultural committee…

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Texas mom shoots kids, kills self after being denied food stamps

Shopping for food at a grocery store (Flickr/Amy Jeffries)

A Texas woman’s trip to the welfare office ended in tragedy Tuesday when she shot her two children and then turned the gun on herself after being denied food stamps. Authorities in Laredo said that 38-year-old Rachelle Grimmer killed herself during a seven-hour standoff with police. Her children, 10 year-old…

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