Working-class, rural white voters who overwhelmingly supported President Donald Trump and on whom he has staked the future of the Republican Party will bear the heaviest burden of GOP attempts to cut back on food stamps, The Washington Post reported on Monday.
House Republicans last week passed a bill that would require those between the ages of 18 and 59 to either work part time or participate in 20 hours per week of workforce training to receive food stamps.
This legislation occurred on the same day that the White House unveiled a plan to consolidate the public safety net under a revamped health department.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities President Robert Greenstein estimated that the new regulations and restructuring “would eliminate or reduce food assistance for more than one million low-income households with more than two million people,” according to the Norwich Bulletin.
Although the highest rates of food-stamp assistance tend to be in the most Democratic areas, the most rural fifth of the population, which is overwhelmingly Trump voters, is also the most likely to live in a household that receives food stamps, the Post reports.
Even though the use of food stamps is not the same across the urban-rural spectrum and depends on the policies of the states that carry out the programs, as well as the poverty of residents, food-stamp use is particularly high in key Trump strongholds such as rural Appalachia, the Ozarks and much of the rural South.
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