This International Women's Day Take a Stand for SNAP
Fight back against unworkable time limits on food assistance
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USDA's proposed rule to increase the number of SNAP participants subject to time limited assistance is an
attack on women, children, and vulnerable young adults. The rule is based on the flawed assumption that persons subject to the work requirement should have no real barriers to finding work if they live in a city with relatively low unemployment. This diminishes the significance of the overlapping and interlocking barriers to opportunity this group faces.
Of those subject to SNAP's time limit
46 percent are women
, who face multiple barriers to stable employment.
Imposing SNAP time limits on non-custodial parents and informal caretakers disrupts their ability to support their children and family members.
SNAP time limits would disproportionately harm young adults experiencing poverty, including former foster youth.
Maintaining state flexibility to exempt vulnerable adults facing structural barriers to employment is essential to making SNAP responsive to people's economic realities.
We must amplify the opposition and fight to protect SNAP access for all.
Fight back against this harmful regulation!
1) Submit a comment in opposition to the rule!
Download our template comments
here.
Submit your comments
here
by April 2nd, 2019
2) Spread the word!
After adding your comment on the rule, encourage at least two people in your network to do the same. Every comment helps!
Thank you for your support!
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