(New York, NY) – A new report says over three-million people have lost federal food aid after new government rules were enacted last year. A report in the “Wall Street Journal” says enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, has decreased by nearly three-and-a-half-million people since stricter eligibility requirements were enacted last summer. One of the biggest decreases was in Arizona, where the number of SNAP recipients has fallen by roughly 50 percent.
Over 42-million people including children received monthly SNAP benefits last year at a cost of about 100-billion dollars.
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