CHICAGO, March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Earlier today, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) unveiled his budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2014. Like past House budgets for 2012 and 2013, the plan includes a devastating proposal to convert the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as Food Stamps) into a "block grant" program. SNAP continues to provide critical food assistance to struggling families as they confront a slowly recovering economy, and the likely result of the House budget proposal would be that millions of people would lose their SNAP benefits, or see them...
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