United Way head wants to preserve food stamp benefits for 179,000 Lake, Sumter County residents

United Way head wants to preserve food stamp benefits for 179,000 Lake, Sumter County residents

| Villages-News.com |

Next week, both the House of Representatives and the Senate will release their versions of the Farm Bill. These bills include provisions for SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or Food Stamps).  The Senate version is a bipartisan agreement. The House Agriculture Committee bipartisan negotiations, however, broke down before the Spring Break. ... The dramatic results of the House version of the Farm Bill will impact the economy of Lake and Sumter Counties negatively, and increase demand on local charities whose resources are already stretched thin...United Way of Lake and Sumter Counties

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