Benefit payments from the US government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), better known as food stamps, will be slashed drastically on November 1, the first across-the-board cut in food stamp benefits in US history. The cuts will amount to $5 billion per year, and a total of $11 billion through 2016. The average household of … Continue reading Poverty in America: US Food Stamp Assistance to be Slashed