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Replacing Food Stamps With Cash Is a Terrible Idea
Turning food stamps into a cash benefit isn't such a great idea from a social-policy standpoint.
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Have Republicans in Congress offered an opening for reforming the nation's food-stamp program? Slate's Matthew Yglesias thinks so.
The House has on various occasions proposed a) cutting the program by $40 billion during the next decade, or b) separating food stamps from the farm subsidies they traditionally have been paired with to ensure support from rural Republicans and urban Democrats.