Page 17 - Nutrition Programs News Today

The elderly and the children. and our job has got to be to expose what right wing extremism is which 85% of the american people disagree with and put these people on the defensive. you are right. at a time when the richest people in this country are becoming richer and the middle class is disappearing, it is beyond shameful to cut food programs, nutrition programs for people in need. to allow people in this country to go hungry. >> its shameful. it is shameful. but now it goes to the senate to y...

Disabilities, senior citizens. when these guys say theyre not cutting nutrition programs for senior citizens, thats an absolute lie. as a result of sequestration, one of the cuts has been that the meals on wheels program -- you know what that is. thats the program that delivers food to the most vulnerable people in america, thousands of those people are off the program. we continue sequestration, more will be. look. what this is about is right wing extremism. and their job is to protect the weal...

Receive food stamps have kids. many of them are working families and many others are senior citizens. those are the people who get food stamps. and we have to decide in this country, at a time when were seeing outrageous wealth and income inequality. rich people doing fence phenome well. are we going to make sure nobody in this country goes hungry or are we going to do as the republicans want, make massive cuts in food stamp programs, nutrition programs for seniors and other programs. and i thin...

More amenable to you so that you dont lose the money you think youre going to lose. once that relationship has been created and established is this the administration turning back around and saying, we scratch your back, you scratch ours. >> its one more thing. we need our help on one more thing. i think its well done, martha, that is ha good connecting of the dots here. i would raise one other point. i am infuriated by all the programs we have in government right now which are essentially outre...

Advocates have been urging congress and president obama to find a way to protect vital programs for low-income families. >> they will be facing a lack of child care, they will be facing cuts to nutrition programs, they will be facing cuts to positive early learning experiences. in the short run it affects their long term development. >> reporter: the white house means 4 million fewer meals for seniors. 600,000 women and children could be dropped from the nutrition assistance program. and more th...

Develop many. he and other youth advocates have been your honoring congress and president obama to find a way to protect vital programs for low-income families. >> theyll be facing a lack of childcare. theyll be facing cuts to nutrition programs. theyll be facing cuts to positive early learning experiences of all of that in the short run undermines their long term development. >> reporter: in addition to head start, as the cuts take if he can, the white house said they could mean 4 million fewer...

Price constraints lead to food that is actually less good for the person thats eating it. >> exactly. the food lunch program, it started actually way back. started in late 1800s, which was charity response to children that were hungry and they know -- they knew children showing up for school, they couldnt really focus, they werent getting good grades. and then it was -- became a federal program under truman in 46. and i think we need to start looking at these programs as nutrition programs. they...

Illustration of the way price constraints lead to food that is actually good to the person eating it. >> exactly. the food program, it started in the late 1800s in response to children that were hungry. they knew children showing up for school couldnt focus and werent getting good grades. and became a federal program under truman in 46. i think we need to start looking at these programs as nutrition programs. its not a handout. you know, we send kids to school. we give them books, we give them a...

Billion to special education, and wic which is women and infant and children program which is $550 million cut, and also $15 billion decrease in the army, and $11 billion from the navy and $7.7 billion from the air force. >> for us in allentown, it is going to be significant. like i said before the break, we have flu shots and we are estimating 5,000 kids in pennsylvania will not be p aebl to get flu shots, because of the funds cut for health and human services. meals on wheels, because of the n...

Jobs and not paying their fair share of the load? why should the unemployed in ohio or anywhere have their unemployment benefits cut by 9% to 11%? youre talking about millions of americans who are living at the edge and our senior citizens who are going to have their nutrition programs cut in ohio. $750,0 $750,000. what are they going to do? give them fewer green beans? >> a lot of the programs slated for cuts are extremely popular with the public. their polling is very strong for the democrats....