The U.S. Department of Agriculture said that a rule tightening work requirements for food stamp recipients would result in 688,000 people losing access to the program
Photo by: Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo/ The Washington Post via Getty Images: The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday that a rule tightening work requirements for food stamp recipients would result in 688,000 people losing access to the program.
The new guidelines would make it harder for states to get those exemptions by raising the minimum unemployment rate in waived counties to 6%. Before, the USDA said, counties receiving waivers had unemployment rates as low as 2.5%.
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