Signature needed ASAP. Huge breakthrough. We can delay--even reduce--the devastating food stamp cuts

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From: "Chris Bowers, Daily Kos" <campaigns@dailykos.com>
Date: Feb 28, 2014 1:20 PM
Subject: Signature needed ASAP. Huge breakthrough. We can delay--even reduce--the devastating food stamp cuts
To: <aquarianm@gmail.com>
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Daniel, food stamp cuts impacting 850,000 families have passed Congress and been signed into law, but there is still a way to delay--or even reduce--these cuts. We might only have until Monday to make it happen: Sign our urgent petition to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack: Use your authority to delay implementing food stamp cuts until the fall. You need to do this. Give families time to adjust and prepare. Give states a chance to restore benefits. Here's the story: People who are receiving heating assistance qualify for increased food stamp assistance, so that families don’t have to choose between eating and heating their homes. But Congress moved the goal posts for these families, increasing the minimum amount of heating assistance required in order to qualify for an increase in food stamp benefits -- effectively forcing poor families to make the choice between eating and heating. But the states facing cuts--most of which are blue states controlled by Democrats--can reduce the impact of food stamp cuts for their residents by increasing the amount of home heating assistance they provide to low-income families. The thing that states most need to reduce the food stamp cuts is time--and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack can give them that time by delaying the implementation of the food stamp cuts until the fall. Nearly 100 members of Congress are pushing Secretary Vilsack to delay the food stamp cuts until the fall, and he is expected to announce his decision as soon as next week. Sign this urgent petition to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack: Delay implementing food stamps cuts. Keep fighting, Chris Bowers, Daily Kos

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