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Trump's marquee bill backfires on red state as food stamps obliterated for 14K
SNAP Was Turned Into a Trap, Then Called AccountabilityThe Punishment Was the PointIn West Virginia, the new SNAP regime is doing exactly what its architects intended: narrowing access, forcing compliance theater, and pushing costs downward onto states and upward onto poor people. Lilly Hall now spends 10 days a month doing unpaid labor at Delbarton Town Hall just to keep food assistance flowing. Helen Comer, after years of caregiving and then serious illness, lost her benefit for not fitting a work box. These are not edge cases. They are what happens when policy is designed to treat need as…
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