Cuts not only harm hungry households, but also have a compounding impact on the food chain and our food economy.
Proposed cuts could lead to $20M in direct cuts to income for small CA farmers and economic stimulus for rural economies and businesses
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3. Freeze CalFresh benefit amounts, without regard for nutrition standards or food costs-essentially cutting grants for every household in the future.
Benefits are already too low. Across California, daily food cost is 82% higher than the CalFresh benefit.
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2. Impose harsher time limits on seniors and families with school-aged children enforced with ineffective, punitive, and counterproductive work requirements.

Putting paperwork over people could mean over 880k Californians will go hungry
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1. Cut federal funding of SNAP benefits and admin costs.
To make up for the loss in funding, CA could have to pay $3.1 billion a year to maintain benefits

#CAbudget MUST be balanced. If the state can’t backfill, over a million may lose assistance
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🍎 CalFresh feeds nearly 2 million kids
👵 CalFresh feeds over 1 million seniors
🥕 CalFresh supports our food economy
🛑 But the House Ag Budget plan would rip food away from millions to protect tax breaks for the wealthy

🧵Among other things, the bill would:

Check out what this breakdown looks like for your district and the methodology report here: grocers.guerrillaeconomics.net