Of the work poor. A person must make less than 931 a month in order to receive more than 200. A family of four, they get around 660 for month. Federal benefits are sometimes too lean to keep a family fed. Do you have a lot of pickups this morning . Jessica kogan runs food for others, a Northern Virginia food bank. In the last couple of months weve seen the demand for our services get even higher than the past year which was already quite high. Our numbers went way up during the height of the recession and they came down a little bit and leveled off but we saw an increase again lately. Kogan wonders how the difference can be made up if congress lessens food stamps. Their needs as i mentioned are very high. So were going to have to try to get more food in. And since 90 of our food is donated i dont know where were going oget it. But were going to rely on the community to come forward and bring us food. At the end of todays show well take you back to food for others to hear firsthand from
The snap program . They say this is an out of control program that people are becoming dependent upon and not lifting themselves up because they have these resources and other side sees this as a growing and expanding program to meet a growing and expanding problem that they have been seeing hard times and this helps them from hitting bottom. Allison cohen . I think the primary reason for increase it is higher than it ever has been since we started you know looking at these numbers, some years ago. Weve got more americans up to 49 million americans that are hungry today. And increase of course is due to the downturn in the economy, the economic recession, but also the growing inequality in this country. So a growing economy alone is not going to have a tremendous impact on hunger and on the number of people that are relying on food stamps. We also have to address the issue of the growing inequality between the rich and the poor and at the root of that is living wage jobs. Well talk mor
More than 1200 people are still unaccounted for in flooding that stretches ore colorados counties, the governor melt with fema to address regulation cue and recovery empth. President said a lot more needs to be done. To help rebuild the u. S. Economy. He also addressed concerns of raising the debt ceiling by saying, lets pay our bills on time and pass a budget. Those are the headlines. More next hour. Inside story is next. As the governments fiscal year comes to an end the farm bill is tied up in knots. And with it, the fate of food stamps and the lives of 47 million mains. The inside story in washington on al jazeera america. If hello, im libby casey. A reason gallup poll says one in five americans doesnt have enough money to buy food for themselves and their family. The future of the food stamp safety net is in questions. On inside story well unravel the politics of hunger, how to feed everyone in the land of plenty. We begin at a foot bank a short drive from the u. S. Capitol. I jus
And i met him in 1984 and got his permission to tell his own story and so glory denied is about what he went through in vietnam. Its also about what his family went through in vietnam and the family together went through after the war. Who was alice . Alice was jims wife. They had been married 10 years at the time that jim was lost in vietnam and hs captivity began. And she they met in new jersey jim found in the army a place where he could realize his dreams and ambitions, but he was wep up in a war that he swept up in a war that he had no understanding of, alice had no understanding of. M wavidn ev knowhere if. The they met in newt jersey. D to the congress gofmente he was learning lingala and suddenly vietnam got hot and his team was ld to train for vietnam. Where was he rom, originall bergenfieldnew jersey. Where was alice from . A neighboring town of dumont. They met on a blind date and they stched partners by the end of the evening, having been attracted to one aoth. Jim was rais
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