Why do I keep finding issues that affect only low income communities?

 If fast food restaurants offered healthy alternatives at a low price,then food stamps would not be such a necessity for some families. In this country we are always complaining about loss of money due to cuts that affects the low income soon to be majority. We have solutions right in our face but instead we settle for the most damaging to humanity. I think the purpose for that is because profit over people has created a crud imbalance. Allison Linn from MSNBC News noted “The House of Representative passed a bill in mid-September that would eliminate about $39 billion from the SNAP budget over the 10 years, while the Senate has approved a bill that makes much smaller cuts to the program” (2013). Let me make it clear that the Senate did not only pass a light cut of “smaller cuts” because just recently, meaning this year Congress has made a cut of 8.5 billion food stamps. What previously was $36 less in food stamps benefits has now raised to $96 less in food stamp benefits. That is outrageously insane considering the fact it is more than half an increase.
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Families will have to choose the lesser of two whether to feed their child or live in their home,pay rent, and starve. That is called a sacrifice .No one wants to see their very own child starving, but it is fine if they just build them a tent outdoors and act as if they are camping. Does that paint a picture to anyone? It is the children that are getting affected at a high-rate with these cuts to food stamps. Debbie Weinstein, executive director of the national Coalition of Human Needs, tells Colorlines news article that“increased program efficiency and the ease of EBT cards has increased participation in SNAP over the past several years, which subsequently led to growing costs. The House cuts would take food out of mouths of poor people, and it’s likely children will be especially hit” (2013). Forbes notes that the distribution of SNAP goes 23.6% for non-disabled adults, 19.8% disabled non-elderly, 8% elderly, and a huge percent of 48.7 of children,which is almost half of a whole.  Placing a decrease on SNAP benefits will not only leave children in hunger but it will create a weak economy. The 47 million people receiving SNAP will only have more trouble getting back on their feet with the worry of hunger.Forbes also states “In a country with more food than anywhere else in the world, it is morally reprehensible to not help those who need it”(2013).