NEW: More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program

Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show children are losing access.
https://www.propublica.org/article/snap-benefits-children-food-stamps?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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NEW: More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program

Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show children are losing access.
https://www.propublica.org/article/snap-benefits-children-food-stamps?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #Food #SNAP #Children #Kids #Poverty #USPolitics

"The American Academy of Pediatricians has indicated, since 1997, when the first big case about children’s detention came out, that any time in detention for a child is extremely harmful. It causes #children to suffer; it creates long-term developmental problems." https://www.texasobserver.org/dilley-family-detention-immigration-habeas-corpus-sb-4/

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From Gaige Davila: "Food is rotten in Dilley. ... I guess the only other way to put it is worm-filled, because it’s often filled with worms. It’s not child-appropriate. Remember, when you have #children who are as old as 16 months, 18 months, they have very specific food needs." https://www.texasobserver.org/dilley-family-detention-immigration-habeas-corpus-sb-4/

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"Family detention center has this feedback [loop] where parents are put in a position of helplessness because they can’t get what their #children need because the administration will not give them what they need, and the children are watching their parents be helpless, the parents are watching their children suffer and they’re only spiraling worse." https://www.texasobserver.org/dilley-family-detention-immigration-habeas-corpus-sb-4/

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NEW: After ProPublica contacted leading vaccine skeptic Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed.

“The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives,” he wrote.
https://www.propublica.org/article/vitamin-k-shot-joseph-mercola-reversal-babies?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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