With hunger in America on the rise for the fifth straight year and Congress poised to throw nearly 300,000 poor people off food stamps, Bread for the World Institute's 16th annual "Hunger Report," Frontline Issues in Nutrition Assistance, shows that poor families using food stamps cannot afford to buy nutritious food, let alone Thanksgiving dinner.
"The faces of our nation's 24 million poor people receiving food stamps could hardly be included in Norman Rockwell's Thanksgiving portrait," said David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World. "They cannot afford a nutritious diet, let alone a Thanksgiving dinner. Congress should be increasing food stamp benefits, not throwing people off the program."
"A recent Boston Medical Center study shows that low income families even getting the maximum food stamp benefits cannot afford a diet consistent with our national nutrition guidelines," Beckmann said. "All that food stamp families can afford is cheap, high fat, high sodium, high starch food that fills you up."
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