By Gene Nichol

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Three hundred billion dollars will be cut from the food stamp program (SNAP) – the largest reduction in American history. The Center for Law and Social Policy found that 11 million impoverished folks, including many millions of kids, will lose food assistance. The United Nations has already referred to the United States as the world’s great “outlier” in accepting grotesque levels of child poverty and child hunger. I wonder what category is worse than “outlier?”

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