{"id":38255,"date":"2013-11-07T11:20:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T18:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=38255"},"modified":"2013-11-07T11:30:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T18:30:45","slug":"taking-more-from-those-who-have-less-how-food-stamp-cuts-affect-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/11\/07\/taking-more-from-those-who-have-less-how-food-stamp-cuts-affect-the-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking More From Those Who Have Less: How Food Stamp Cuts Affect the Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20131107Uprising\/2013_11_07_foodstamps.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20131107Uprising\/2013_11_07_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/food_stamp_cuts.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Using measures that affect mostly the richest one percent of Americans, Wall Street has declared that the US economy grew at its fastest pace in the last three months since a year ago. But while investors make a bee-line for Twitter shares, many Americans are wondering where their next meal will come from. <\/p>\n<p>Nearly 50 million Americans saw cuts to their food stamps last Friday after the automatic end of a phase of stimulus spending. Californian families on food stamps will now receive about $36 a month less than they used to. <\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not all \u2013 Congress wants to force even more cuts to the federal food assistance program. The Republican dominated House has already passed a bill that would push 2 million Americans off the program. The Senate has also approved cuts but on a smaller scale. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Frank Tamborello, Executive Director of Hunger Action LA and Uprising&#8217;s go-to guest on food stamps<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hunger Action LA&#8217;s Annual Awards Dinner takes place on Thursday November 14, 2013 at Kavar Restaurant, 4777 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90029. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hungeractionla.org\/dinnerandawards\/index.htm\">Click here<\/a> for tickets. KPFK is a media sponsor of the event.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hungeractionla.org\">www.hungeractionla.org<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using measures that affect mostly the richest one percent of Americans, Wall Street has declared that the US economy grew at its fastest pace in the last three months since a year ago. But while investors make a bee-line for Twitter shares, many Americans are wondering where their next meal will come from. Nearly 50 [&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-38255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38255","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=38255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38264,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38255\/revisions\/38264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}