Word: foodstamps
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Carol Brill, a spokesman for the National Association of Social Workers, said that "welfare recipients are being asked to eat the scraps on the table of plenty in Massachusetts." Brill added that inflation and foodstamp reductions will negate any increase in welfare spending...
...Some things have improved over the past 25 years and then gone back down again," said Deborah V. Weinstein, executive director of the Massachussetts Human Services Committee, another sponsor of the rally. "The foodstamp program worked well when it was first set up and then in the last few years--the Reagan years--foodstamp eligibility was cut back and benefits were not keeping up with inflation...
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