Don't shame the hungry:

[riversedge]

Don't shame the hungry -- Sherry Caves


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21 hrs ago

Feeding the hungry is a worthy goal. Shaming the hungry, setting up obstacles and barriers to getting help, is unworthy and mean.

Food Shares (also known as food stamps) provide food to hungry people. Gov. Scott Walker has a provision in his state budget proposal — and both the Senate and Assembly have or will have bills introduced — to limit access based on problems with child support compliance. Only Mississippi has such a restriction.

Wisconsin already has the second highest child support compliance in the nation. So why has Gov. Walker proposed further steps that are expensive and complicated? To create a stigma around getting help for hunger. To shame the hungry.

Forty-four percent of those receiving the benefits, and therefore those who would be most harmed by this restriction, are -- you guessed it -- children. Please consider using the email address below to contact the Joint Finance Committee, which is receiving comments on the budget and may vote it out of committee this week. You can email the committee at [e-mail]. Contact your state senator to vote against Senate Bill 19 and your Assembly person to vote against Assembly Bill 557.

[dembotoz]

1. Just another dick move

[HelenWheels]

2. We are truly becoming Wisissippi