Thesis Statement-
Hunger in America is an issue that can be prevented by extending the time period for snap recipients who get a job, until they are stable enough to support themselves.
Topic Sentences-
1. Barbie received food stamps that lasted three weeks out of the month, and for the last week, experienced extreme food insecurity.
2. If minimum wage is raised it would greatly cut the cost of the Supplemental nutrition assistance program as well as the need for such a system.
3. The $39 billion budget cut on the SNAP program must be restored in order to end hunger for poverty stricken low-income American families.
4. The current standard of ineligibility in the SNAP program is inefficient.
Source Material-
1. as stated by www.centeronbudget.org “the nation’s most important anti-hunger program.”
2. Barbie Izquierdo, introduced in the documentary A Place At the Table, struggled with hunger, while attempting to care for herself and her two small children.
3. Documents Barbie’s life starting after the recent loss of her job. Barbie states “The assistance programs in the United States are very hard to qualify for. It’s like either you’re starving or you don’t get any help. But what defines starving? If you don’t eat for a day, are you starving? In their eyes no, but in your eyes, and the way you feel, of course.” (A Place At the Table). An article by ElishaFieldstadt of NBC News releases a statement from Marianne Smith Vargas chief philanthropy officer at food bank of southeastern Virginia stating that “We are hearing story after story about how a family was making ends meet on what they received in food stamps prior to the cut. Now, even the smallest cut is forcing them to come to the food bank for help.” Barbie received food stamps that lasted three weeks out of the month, and for the last week, experienced extreme food insecurity.
4. The $39 billion budget cut on the SNAP program must be restored in order to end hunger for poverty stricken low-income American families. An article on www.washingtonpost.com states that”Right now, there are roughly 47.7 million Americans on food stamps — a number that swelled during the recession and has only recently started to decline.
5. The House GOP bill would kick about 3.8 million people off the
food-stamp rolls over the course of the upcoming fiscal year that begins in October. That includes 1.7 million unemployed, childless adults aged 18-50. It also includes another 2.1 million families and seniors who have incomes just slightly above the federal food-stamp limits.”
Conclusion-
Single parents are not able to children with nutritious fresh food because they do not make enough money from their job, and they do not receive enough funding from SNAP. By allowing those to remain on the same limit they received before they got the job until they are stable will decrease hunger in America.
Hunger in America is an issue that can be prevented by extending the time period for snap recipients who get a job, until they are stable enough to support themselves.
Topic Sentences-
1. Barbie received food stamps that lasted three weeks out of the month, and for the last week, experienced extreme food insecurity.
2. If minimum wage is raised it would greatly cut the cost of the Supplemental nutrition assistance program as well as the need for such a system.
3. The $39 billion budget cut on the SNAP program must be restored in order to end hunger for poverty stricken low-income American families.
4. The current standard of ineligibility in the SNAP program is inefficient.
Source Material-
1. as stated by www.centeronbudget.org “the nation’s most important anti-hunger program.”
2. Barbie Izquierdo, introduced in the documentary A Place At the Table, struggled with hunger, while attempting to care for herself and her two small children.
3. Documents Barbie’s life starting after the recent loss of her job. Barbie states “The assistance programs in the United States are very hard to qualify for. It’s like either you’re starving or you don’t get any help. But what defines starving? If you don’t eat for a day, are you starving? In their eyes no, but in your eyes, and the way you feel, of course.” (A Place At the Table). An article by ElishaFieldstadt of NBC News releases a statement from Marianne Smith Vargas chief philanthropy officer at food bank of southeastern Virginia stating that “We are hearing story after story about how a family was making ends meet on what they received in food stamps prior to the cut. Now, even the smallest cut is forcing them to come to the food bank for help.” Barbie received food stamps that lasted three weeks out of the month, and for the last week, experienced extreme food insecurity.
4. The $39 billion budget cut on the SNAP program must be restored in order to end hunger for poverty stricken low-income American families. An article on www.washingtonpost.com states that”Right now, there are roughly 47.7 million Americans on food stamps — a number that swelled during the recession and has only recently started to decline.
5. The House GOP bill would kick about 3.8 million people off the
food-stamp rolls over the course of the upcoming fiscal year that begins in October. That includes 1.7 million unemployed, childless adults aged 18-50. It also includes another 2.1 million families and seniors who have incomes just slightly above the federal food-stamp limits.”
Conclusion-
Single parents are not able to children with nutritious fresh food because they do not make enough money from their job, and they do not receive enough funding from SNAP. By allowing those to remain on the same limit they received before they got the job until they are stable will decrease hunger in America.