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California lawmakers, agencies warn proposed federal SNAP cuts would worsen hunger and ripple through state food system
Summary
At a joint Assembly hearing, state officials, advocates and food-bank leaders said proposed federal cuts to SNAP and related programs would increase hunger, reduce demand for California-grown food and risk job losses across the food economy.
At a joint oversight hearing of the Assembly Human Services and Agriculture Committees, state officials, advocates and food-bank leaders warned that proposed federal reductions to SNAP and other nutrition programs could sharply increase hunger in California and harm the state's agricultural and food-distribution sectors.
Advocates said the scale of the possible federal cuts is large and would have downstream effects across jobs and markets. "There is a threat of $230,000,000,000 federally, nationally over the budget window, $30,000,000,000 shared to California," said Andrew Shane of GRACE and Child Poverty California, summarizing proposals being discussed in Congress and their projected national and state impacts. He added that "every billion dollars in benefits is 13,560 jobs according to USDA," and warned that cuts would…
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