{"id":36513,"date":"2013-07-12T10:07:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T17:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=36513"},"modified":"2013-07-12T10:07:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T17:07:06","slug":"house-republicans-target-food-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/07\/12\/house-republicans-target-food-stamps\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans Target Food Stamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130712Walmart\/2013_07_12_foodstamps.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130712Walmart\/2013_07_12_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/foodstamps.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Food stamp recipients, trying to live on just over $30 of food a week, have a new reason to worry \u2013 House Republicans want to cut the food stamp program either dramatically or altogether. <\/p>\n<p>A vote yesterday split off, for the first time in decades, the federal government\u2019s food stamp program from the Farm Bill to which it is traditionally attached. <\/p>\n<p>An earlier version of the bill, with $20 billion in cuts failed to pass the House a month but a similar bill with smaller cuts passed the Senate. <\/p>\n<p>President Obama has already promised to veto a Farm bill that arrives on his desk sans Food Stamps. <\/p>\n<p>The House GOP leadership has promised to vote on a separate Food Stamp bill at a later date. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Frank Tamborello, Executive Director of Hunger Action LA<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hungeractionla.org\">www.hungeractionla.org<\/a> for more information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food stamp recipients, trying to live on just over $30 of food a week, have a new reason to worry \u2013 House Republicans want to cut the food stamp program either dramatically or altogether. A vote yesterday split off, for the first time in decades, the federal government\u2019s food stamp program from the Farm Bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36523,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36513\/revisions\/36523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}