{"id":1490,"date":"2012-03-22T15:03:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T19:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2012-03-22T15:03:51","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T19:03:51","slug":"house-republican-budget-could-cut-off-food-assistance-for-millions-of-low-income-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/03\/house-republican-budget-could-cut-off-food-assistance-for-millions-of-low-income-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republican Budget Could Cut Off Food Assistance For Millions Of Low-Income Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan\u2019s budget would turn food stamps into a block grant program, sending it back to the states to do with as they see fit. The plan also cuts SNAP by 17 percent, or more than $133 billion. As the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities noted, this proposal could cut millions of low-income people off from vital food assistance:<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2012\/03\/22\/450050\/house-republican-budget-could-cut-off-food-assistance-for-millions-of-low-income-americans\/\">House Republican Budget Could Cut Off Food Assistance For Millions Of Low-Income Americans | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan\u2019s budget would turn food stamps into a block grant program, sending it back to the states to do with as they see fit. The plan also cuts SNAP by 17 percent, or more than $133 billion. As the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities noted, this proposal could cut millions of low-income people off&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,22],"tags":[24,972,69,70,855,977],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1491,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions\/1491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}