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Laura Funchion
Professor Sabatino Mangini
ENG 100
25 June 2014
Put Funds Back In SNAP
“When I give food to the poor they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.” Archbishop Dom Helder Camara of Brazil. In 2012 46.5 million people lived in poverty. Poverty is also known as destitution the basic human needs. Its been said that the first three years of a child life is the most important to established good nutrition for them to have a good physical, economic productivity, academic, and mental health. 76 percent of people receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The majority of these people who receive SNAP are children, elderly, and the disabled. In November of 2013 the SNAP benefits were cut to all participants to go to The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act. Although the cuts went to another nutrient program, it took what people live off of more. The SNAP program helps people feed themselves and their family and the funding needs to go back and increased its just not enough to live off of every month.
The SNAP program this pass November received cut to almost 47 million Americans alone. The total cut nationally should average around 5 billion dollars taken away. Rosie who is featured in A Place At the Table, is a fifth grader from Collbran, Colorado whose family relies on the SNAP program can’t make it month to month with the amount the program gives them. Rosie often goes to school hungry and instead of focusing on school work she focuses on the time. How much time she has left until she is able to get lunch. We teach our kids that it very important to pay attention in school but how can they if the only meal they get that is enough is the school lunch because of cuts giving in the wrong place.
In 2012, 5 billion lunches were served in school cafeterias. Out of the 5 billion, two-thirds of them were free or at a reduced price. Mostly all the children who are on the SNAP program receive more food and nutrition from their school then they would from their homes. Even though their parents try to get what they need to eat for three meals they are forced to budget and cut corners in nutrients to make their food last in light of the cuts.
All states rely on a budget of where the tax dollars should go. Almost every states highest percentage of tax money goes toward education and about 1 percent goes into public assistance. The SNAP cuts went towards The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act. This act is supposed to improve children’s lunches and breakfasts in schools. Which in all sounds good but they left out an important fact, what about when the kids go home for the rest of the night or for the weekends or how about when they are home for the summer. The government tries to justify the cut by putting it back into another nutrient program that only helps hungry children during school not at home or childless people.
47 million Americans got cut in the SNAP program all to go towards The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act. Which help kids get proper meals and nutrients from their school lunches and breakfast. It also helps children get their lunches free or reduced. It’s a good idea at first but taking away from one meal to put towards another when the children are only in school for 8 hours a day five days a week and off for the summer. They didn’t take into consideration where and how these kids will get the rest of their meals and nutrients from. The majority of the states and government budget goes towards education. If they take two-thirds of that budget and put it back in the SNAP program they might see an increase of grades and more children focusing on their school work rather than their stomachs and nationally the number of people going hungry might be reduced.
Sources;
A place At The Table: www.imdb.com
Stop Hunger: www.stophungernow.org
United States Department of Agriculture:
www.ers.usda.gov and www.fns.usda.gov
Feeding America: www.feedingamerica.org
Center On Budget and Policy Priorities: www.cbpp.org
Professor Sabatino Mangini
ENG 100
25 June 2014
Put Funds Back In SNAP
“When I give food to the poor they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.” Archbishop Dom Helder Camara of Brazil. In 2012 46.5 million people lived in poverty. Poverty is also known as destitution the basic human needs. Its been said that the first three years of a child life is the most important to established good nutrition for them to have a good physical, economic productivity, academic, and mental health. 76 percent of people receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The majority of these people who receive SNAP are children, elderly, and the disabled. In November of 2013 the SNAP benefits were cut to all participants to go to The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act. Although the cuts went to another nutrient program, it took what people live off of more. The SNAP program helps people feed themselves and their family and the funding needs to go back and increased its just not enough to live off of every month.
The SNAP program this pass November received cut to almost 47 million Americans alone. The total cut nationally should average around 5 billion dollars taken away. Rosie who is featured in A Place At the Table, is a fifth grader from Collbran, Colorado whose family relies on the SNAP program can’t make it month to month with the amount the program gives them. Rosie often goes to school hungry and instead of focusing on school work she focuses on the time. How much time she has left until she is able to get lunch. We teach our kids that it very important to pay attention in school but how can they if the only meal they get that is enough is the school lunch because of cuts giving in the wrong place.
In 2012, 5 billion lunches were served in school cafeterias. Out of the 5 billion, two-thirds of them were free or at a reduced price. Mostly all the children who are on the SNAP program receive more food and nutrition from their school then they would from their homes. Even though their parents try to get what they need to eat for three meals they are forced to budget and cut corners in nutrients to make their food last in light of the cuts.
All states rely on a budget of where the tax dollars should go. Almost every states highest percentage of tax money goes toward education and about 1 percent goes into public assistance. The SNAP cuts went towards The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act. This act is supposed to improve children’s lunches and breakfasts in schools. Which in all sounds good but they left out an important fact, what about when the kids go home for the rest of the night or for the weekends or how about when they are home for the summer. The government tries to justify the cut by putting it back into another nutrient program that only helps hungry children during school not at home or childless people.
47 million Americans got cut in the SNAP program all to go towards The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act. Which help kids get proper meals and nutrients from their school lunches and breakfast. It also helps children get their lunches free or reduced. It’s a good idea at first but taking away from one meal to put towards another when the children are only in school for 8 hours a day five days a week and off for the summer. They didn’t take into consideration where and how these kids will get the rest of their meals and nutrients from. The majority of the states and government budget goes towards education. If they take two-thirds of that budget and put it back in the SNAP program they might see an increase of grades and more children focusing on their school work rather than their stomachs and nationally the number of people going hungry might be reduced.
Sources;
A place At The Table: www.imdb.com
Stop Hunger: www.stophungernow.org
United States Department of Agriculture:
www.ers.usda.gov and www.fns.usda.gov
Feeding America: www.feedingamerica.org
Center On Budget and Policy Priorities: www.cbpp.org