Nutrition Program Changes In the President’s Budget

By Anonymous

The Food Research and Action Center says President Bush’s fiscal year 2008 budget proposals fall far short of the investments required to meet the health, education and nutrition needs of America’s vulnerable families, children and elderly.

According to the analysis, while modest changes to program rules would add 98,000 people to the Food Stamp Program, other changes mean that 329,000 people in working families with children that are low-income, but not receiving cash assistance, would lose eligibility.

The administration’s budget would weaken the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children by reducing access and quality of services to low-income mothers, infants and children who are nutritionally at risk, the study says. It would also eliminate the Commodity Supplemental Food Program that provides nutrition assistance to more than 485,000 low-income elderly, children and mothers.

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