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Food Research and Action Center:
More than 1,000 organizations joined the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) in supporting a strong nutrition title in this year's Farm Bill reauthorization, particularly to strengthen and improve access to the Food Stamp Program.
"If we want to take a serious step toward ending hunger in the U.S., we should give people more resources to purchase food.
Benefit levels must be increased to actually let families obtain an adequate diet," said Jim Weill, FRAC president.
"We also must ensure that arbitrary barriers to eligibility -- like unreasonable asset tests -- are eliminated, and those who are eligible for food stamps get them.
Provide people with more resources to purchase food by increasing the monthly food stamp benefit.
Those people in need of food but excluded from the Food Stamp Program include working poor families with savings slightly above decades-old and outdated resource limits, many legal immigrants, and numerous indigent jobless people seeking employment.
Posted on February 1, 2007 02:43 AM
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