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SNAP Cuts Injure Bodies and Souls: Jason DeParle on Hunger, Bureaucracy, and Faith
A grandmother raising three teenage boys lost $700 a month in food assistance after submitting the wrong year’s income statement. She called 100 times in one month to correct the mistake—and never got through.
New York Times poverty reporter Jason DeParle joins Jim Wallis to bring the human consequences of SNAP cuts into focus. Drawing on his reporting in Arizona, where enrollment fell by roughly half in a year, DeParle describes eligible families shut out by paperwork demands, unanswered calls, and overwhelmed agencies.
They examine why payment errors are not the same as fraud, how new state…
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