USDA cancels survey tracking how many Americans struggle to get enough food
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) under the administration of President Trump announced on Saturday that it will end a longstanding annual food insecurity survey, calling it "redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous."
The Household Food Security Report provides yearly data on the lack of access to adequate nutrition for low-income Americans, and helps shape policy on how to combat food insecurity and hunger.
The USDA's announcement comes after Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law this summer, which expands the work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. This, in effect, will leave an estimated 2.4 million Americans without food aid.
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Can't have poverty if you never look for it.
It feels like this is coming next. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign
People are going to die in mass.
en masse, but yeah, agreed.
"If I don't see it, it's not there!" 🙈
No, see, you guys are all doing it wrong. Just rotate the thing so line goes down. Don't even need a sharpie this time
I understood what you were getting at.
Exactly, except the starvation line is currently going up as people lose work and food prices rise. Turn the chart and bam, the line goes down. I maybe shouldn't post while exhausted
Leaving this here for anyone with a short memory https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/07/14/trump-says-us-would-have-half-the-number-of-coronavirus-cases-if-it-did-half-the-testing.html
I love how this study is "costly, politicized, and extraneous," but changing the name from Department of Defense to Department of War isn't. And what about those $50k Big Brother posters of him hanging on government buildings. Totally worth it.
Vibes over principles.
there's gonna be a famine. start working on your food security now
Pretty good description of this administration, actually
The party of family values
At this point it feels like we're ruled by the family of party values. Is that worse? :(
When there's no food to eat, the people will eat the rich.
Qu'ils mangent de la brioche!
In the US, it's more like BBQing long pig. Eww! Just grossed myself out. 🤢
Food is going to be harder for Americans to come by in the near future. How much harder, hard to say. I don't think it's panic buy time, but it's definitely "start stockpiling dry goods" time.
Trump did