Albany, Ga. -Belinda Mcloyd is thinking about peanut butter.
The 64 -year -old MCLOYD is previously paid monthly through the Federal Federal Federal Nutrition Nutrition Support Program.
“They don’t give you a lot of things to work with you. To be tight, she eats noodles (sodium and less nutritious) many times a week.
Mcloyd, diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and heart problems, said that if it had more money, he would buy more grapes, melons, chucklosts, ground turkeys, cabbage and turnum vegetables. During the epidemic period, she did when she doubled her snap benefits.
However, since the GOP -led parliament approved the food support program by 2034, the Mcloyd, who worked in the retail business until retired in 2016, is not sure how to eat healthy food if her benefits are reduced.
MCLOYD said her only hope for healthy eating is relying on peanut butter.
“I can get everything I can get,” I use a walker to go around the senior community in southwestern Georgia. “I try to eat healthy, but I can’t do it because I can’t take it.”
The second Trump administration said healthy eating habits were priority. It has published a report of “making the United States healthy”, which mentioned that the diet is poor as a cause of childhood disease and chronic disease. And the states, including Arkansas, Aida, and Utah, allow the first federal snap benefits to limit the purchase of healthy foods with the first federal snap benefits.
President Donald Trump will also sign up on taxes and spending on July 4, switching mainly for costs and expanding existing business requirements, making it more difficult for people to be eligible for snaps. This bill is reduced by about 20%of the SNAP budget and the deepest cuts faced by the program. Currently, about 40 million people will receive SNAP payments, but 3 million people will completely lose their nutrition support, and the bill analysis of the previous version of the non -party council budget office will reduce millions of benefits.
Researchers say that SNAP CUTS opposes efforts to help people prevent chronic diseases through healthy foods.
Kate Bauer, associate professor of nutrition science at the University of Public Health, Michigan, said, “People should rely on cheaper foods.
“This is, ‘Oh, we are interested in health, but for the rich,’ she said.
About 47 million people lived in a limited or uncertain furniture in 2023. According to the US Department of Agriculture. According to a study of this institution, people living in food security families It is more likely to develop High blood pressure, arthritis, diabetes, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
The Trump administration claims that the cuts will not harm those who benefit.
Anna Kelly, a White House spokesman, said, “This is a completely scary ambiguity.” This bill ultimately implemented cost sharing measures as a state and common sense work requirements, so that SNAP will be strengthened to those who need.
The MCLOYD of the GEORGIA ‘S Dougherty County and other residents where Albany are located in 2017, Tiffany Terrell, which established a better food to bring fresh food to people who could not travel with groceries in 2017, is already healthy from budget and poverty to food and transportation. He said he is facing a steep barrier to food.
Terrell believes that federal cuts for food support will devast this area to help residents to increase diets and suppress chronic diseases with fruits, vegetables and other nutritious foods. (Renuka Rayasam/KFF Health News)
Terrell said that more healthy diets can alleviate many diseases found in her southwestern Georgia community. (Renuka Rayasam/KFF Health News)
The majority of rural-Black County, which web du bois depicts “heart of black belt” and “interestingly mixed hope and pain,” benefits more than one-third of the residents in the Black County.
Terrell said more healthy diets can alleviate many diseases found in the community. In 2017, she replaced the school bus seats with a shelf with fruits, vegetables, meat and eggs, and drove mobile grocery stores into elderly communities, public housing development and rural areas.
However, food support cuts will devast this area to help residents to increase their diets and to suffer from chronic diseases with fruits, vegetables and other nutritious foods, she said.
Terrell saw how SNAP winners like MCLOYD became healthier when food support rose during the epidemic period. They got eggs instead of ramen noodles and received fresh meat and production instead of canned sausages.
Since 2020, the SNAP recipient has received additional epidemic support, which is a 9% reduction in those who say that there are plenty of food to eat or often. Policy Research Institute of North Western University. After the payment in 2023, more families had a hard time buying enough food. A study published in health work october. In particular, black families, not Hispanic, have seen anxiety.
Katie Bergh, a chief policy analyst of the Food Support Team of the Budget Policy and Priority Center, said, “We know that even short food anxiety for children can be greatly harmed by long -term health and cognitive development.
The Trump administration said it is increasing healthy eating habits for low -income Americans by restricting what can be purchased with snap benefits. SNAP benefits have begun to approve the status request to limit the purchase of soda and candy.
Robert F. Kennedy JR., a health and human service secretary of the Health and Human Service, said, “Thank you for the bold leadership and the Governor of Nebraska for the Indiana, Arkansas, Ida Ho, Utah, I and children and Nebraska. press release About the request. “I am requiring that all the governors of the country are to submit a SNAP exemption to remove sweet beverages. Taxpayers should not buy a product that supplies fuel to chronic disease infectious diseases.”
The state called for such a restriction in the past, but the former administration, including the first Trump administration, did not approve it.
Research results showed that the fact was revealed. A program that encourages people to buy healthy foods It is more effective than regulating what they can live. These limitations are beneficial, burdensome to retailers and difficult to implement, researchers increase these limitations.
“People make a tremendous choice to survive,” said Gina Plata-Nino, SNAP deputy director of Food Research & Action Center, Food Research & Action Center.
She is “not about soda and candy.”
Terrell said that if the benefits of food are further reduced, they cannot be sure how people will survive.
“What do we think people will do?” Terrell said last year, Terrell, a better method of groceries that opened a bustling community market that sells fresh juices, smoothies and wellness shots in downtown Albany. “We will be able to choose between food and bills.”
It is true for the 22 -year -old Stephen Harrison. During the epidemic period, he used additional support to buy strawberries and grapes, but now it comes out in a better way to buy orange when possible.
Harrison, who is studying cooking art at Albany Technical College, said his family budget was carefully set to provide meals such as pork with corn bread and color green, but if his benefits were cut, the family should rely on cheaper food.
“I will buy a hot dog,” he said.
