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Catholic Charities USA:
The proposed $2.9 trillion budget contains drastic cuts and changes to a range of programs that address the health and well-being of low-income families and individuals.
Catholic Charities USA is especially alarmed that just two weeks after President Bush's State of the Union address, in which he acknowledged the nation's health care crisis, the president is recommending cutting more than $100 billion from Medicaid, Medicare, and other critical health care programs over five years.
The Administration proposes to eliminate Food Stamp eligibility for approximately 300,000 people in working families with children.
These families have low-incomes, but they are not receiving cash assistance.
The budget also proposes to eliminate funding for the Commodity Supplemental Food Program, which provides funding for the elderly and nutritionally vulnerable pregnant women and their children.
The Administration proposes deep cuts to services and housing programs administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
"As part of our campaign, we will measure policymakers' budget and policy proposals in terms of how they strengthen or weaken family life and how they address the dignity of the human person to have access to adequate food, shelter, health care and economic security," said Father Snyder.
Posted on February 8, 2007 07:25 PM
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