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  • GOP budget cuts stand to deal tremendous damage to rural economies

    Mar 3, 2025 2:00 pm by New RepublicIllinois in the News
    Representative Angie Craig, ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee, warns that cuts to SNAP “endanger hundreds of thousands of jobs along a food supply chain that starts in rural America and ends at dinner tables in every community across the country.”

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    New Republic (March 3) 'The way to really reduce spending is to reduce the number of people in the program,” says Professor Jonathan Coppess. Tighter requirements don't 'mean that people aren’t hungry... They just can’t get into the program.'

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