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Please Attend! Economic Justice in Action: Power and Policy in the Age of Deregulation
The fight for economic justice has never been more critical. Congress is ramming through the federal budget bill, which threatens to reshape our economy in drastic ways. The bill would further enrich billionaires by cutting services and assistance for the families that need them most, from Medicaid to SNAP to student loan relief. It also makes policy changes that erode consumer protections, guts efforts to expand small business-lending, and funds anti-immigration practices and programs. In Maryland, we’re working to understand how this assault on working people will impact our families and communities, particularly Black and Brown neighborhoods still living with ...
How SNAP Benefit Cuts Would Affect Maryland Residents
According to a recent report by the Urban Institute, federal SNAP benefits will fail to cover the cost of a modestly priced meal in every county in the US, when the proposed cuts to the 2021 Thrifty Food Plan update go into effect. Maryland is one of the states that will see the biggest gap between benefit amounts and the cost of a meal. In Maryland, rolling back the 2021 Thrifty Food Plan would mean that a modestly priced meal would cost 70% more than the maximum SNAP benefit. Below, explore which counties would have had the largest difference between ...