Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

Two quick points on supplemental nutrition:

a) SNAP comes out of the orange slice at the bottom of the chart here.  It’s no more responsible for the ballooning national debt than snow removal in Florida. 

b) Almost half of SNAP recipients are children.

In an effort to repeal legislation that provides school lunch programs, Republican lawmakers have claimed that there is no evidence that such efforts have a beneficial effect on learning.  But this is not true, as if a study were required to prove it.

Ruining public education is a terrible idea, and unfortunately what’s going on here receives very little attention, given the other outrages happening all around us, every day.