Senate Committee Approves $4B In Food Aid Cuts As House Preps Even Worse Measure

Senate Committee Approves $4B In Food Aid Cuts As House Preps Even Worse Measure: The average value of federal food aid will fall to $1.40 per person per meal in November, as a Recovery Act provision expires, but Republicans are already working to impose a further $21 billion in cuts to the program. That’s the upshot of two recent Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reports on the future [...]/p