These House cuts would deny food help to roughly 18 million people, argues the director of a food aid alliance.
The House of Representatives has put America’s international food aid programs on the chopping block, last week slashing these cost-effective and life-saving programs to their lowest levels in over a decade. While the House’s fiscal year 2011 funding bill cuts 10.3 percent from non-defense appropriations, it disproportionately cuts food assistance by an astonishing 42 percent.
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