{"id":35655,"date":"2019-12-06T14:52:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T14:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=35655"},"modified":"2019-12-06T14:52:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T14:52:03","slug":"nearly-700000-americans-to-lose-food-stamps-under-new-trump-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=35655","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 700,000 Americans to lose food stamps under new Trump policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move will restriction countries from exempting work-eligible adults from having to maintain steady employment to receive benefits<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of Americans who are dependent upon the federal food stamp program will lose their benefits under a new Trump administration rule that will tighten work requirements for recipients.<\/p>\n<p>The move by the administration is the latest in its attempt to scale back the social safety net for low-income Americans. It is the first of three proposed rules targeting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as Snap, to be finalized. The program feeds more than 36 million people.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/dec\/04\/food-stamps-snap-trump-sonny-perdue\">Continue reading &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/dec\/04\/food-stamps-snap-trump-sonny-perdue\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move will restriction countries from exempting work-eligible adults from having to maintain steady employment to receive benefits Hundreds of thousands of Americans who are dependent upon the federal food stamp program will lose their benefits under a new Trump administration rule that will tighten work requirements for recipients. The move by the administration is the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16191,15608,15616,1953,15610],"class_list":["post-35655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-benefits","tag-society","tag-us-news","tag-us-politics","tag-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/35001575643924.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}