A House Oversight subcommittee today will examine a proposal designed to limit SNAP benefits. It's the second day of hearings on the “negative effects” of the Trump administration’s proposed regulations related to children
to assess the impact of the administration’s actions on child poverty, housing, hunger and health. On Wednesday, Amy Jo Hutchison, an organizer with the Healthy Kids and Families Coalition in West Virginia, testified during a hearing on the administration’s proposed changes to the poverty line calculation. The federal poverty guidelines say Hutchinson isn't poor, but she said she has “two jobs and a bachelor’s degree" and still struggles "to make ends meet.
— "I’m not poor, but I cashed in a jar full of change the other night so my daughter could attend her high school band competition,” she said. “I had to decide which bills not to pay to be here in this room today. Believe me, I’ve pulled myself up by the bootstraps so many damn times that I’ve ripped them off."because the Trump administration has only solicited public comments about possibly revamping how the government measures poverty.Democrats also slammed President Donald Trump’s State of the Union claim that 7 million Americans have come off food stamps and 10 million have been lifted off welfare under his administration.
— Parent activists want to redirect the education conversation back to “what is best for children and families,” rather than having “this tired discussion time and again about governance models,” Rodrigues said. “I am not signing up to protect the status quo that literally is going to make my child at best a survivor of public education."POLITICO’s 10th Annual State Solutions Conference, happening on the sidelines of the National Governors Association’s Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C.
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