The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) under the administration of President Trump announced on Saturday that it will end a longstanding annual food insecurity survey, calling it "redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous."
The Household Food Security Report provides yearly data on the lack of access to adequate nutrition for low-income Americans, and helps shape policy on how to combat food insecurity and hunger.
The USDA's announcement comes after Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law this summer, which expands the work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. This, in effect, will leave an estimated 2.4 million Americans without food aid.
17 Comments
einlander@lemmy.world · 62 pts · 335d
Can't have poverty if you never look for it.
It feels like this is coming next. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign
People are going to die in mass.
muxika@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 335d
en masse, but yeah, agreed.
"If I don't see it, it's not there!" 🙈
mushroommunk@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 335d
No, see, you guys are all doing it wrong. Just rotate the thing so line goes down. Don't even need a sharpie this time
einlander@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 335d
I understood what you were getting at.
mushroommunk@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 335d
Exactly, except the starvation line is currently going up as people lose work and food prices rise. Turn the chart and bam, the line goes down. I maybe shouldn't post while exhausted
Reasonable_Guy@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 335d
Leaving this here for anyone with a short memory https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/07/14/trump-says-us-would-have-half-the-number-of-coronavirus-cases-if-it-did-half-the-testing.html
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 335d
I love how this study is "costly, politicized, and extraneous," but changing the name from Department of Defense to Department of War isn't. And what about those $50k Big Brother posters of him hanging on government buildings. Totally worth it.
henfredemars@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 335d
Vibes over principles.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 21 pts · 335d
there's gonna be a famine. start working on your food security now
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 335d
Pretty good description of this administration, actually
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 335d
The party of family values
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 335d
At this point it feels like we're ruled by the family of party values. Is that worse? :(
9limmer@piefed.zip · 9 pts · 335d
When there's no food to eat, the people will eat the rich.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 335d
Qu'ils mangent de la brioche!
9limmer@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 335d
In the US, it's more like BBQing long pig. Eww! Just grossed myself out. 🤢
oddlyqueer@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 335d
Food is going to be harder for Americans to come by in the near future. How much harder, hard to say. I don't think it's panic buy time, but it's definitely "start stockpiling dry goods" time.
apenstaartje@lemmy.cafe · 0 pts · 335d
Trump did