Food Stamps

Unfortunately, we have the same income and food distribution problems Amartya Sen talks about right here in the U.S. Yesterday's Washington Post documented one woman's struggle to live on Food Stamps, a program which is not indexed to inflation and which has become a political football in this year's farm bill. Congress just enacted that bill, H.R.2419, over President Bush's veto. It arrested the steady decline in Food Stamps, but it didn't restore any of the lost value of Food Stamps since the 1996 and subsequent cuts under Presidents Clinton and Bush 43. The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities documented the decline on May 23rd.