Under this bill that provision of the law would be repealed. leaving 1.5 million children at riskand at least 4 million mothers would lose health coverage. This conference bill undermines the school lunch program. It denies school lunches to certain categories of immigrant school children. including legal immigrants. and it would create an entire bureaucracy to determine the status of the children. It would deny SSI and food stamps to immigrants who are legal permanent residents of the United States. The bill includes S32 billion In food stamp benefit cuts to the elderly and working poor--which means about a 20percent cut to those families who are already working. who are struggling to make ends meet on a minimum wage job or with a Social Security check struggling to pay for basics to keep them from losing their apartments and ending up homeless and on the street. When fully in effect the food stamp cuts will lower the average benefit level from 78 cents per person per meal to 62 cents--62 cents a meal.
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