{"id":21607,"date":"2014-03-05T18:31:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T02:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/restore-food-assistance-to-families\/"},"modified":"2014-03-05T18:31:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T02:31:49","slug":"restore-food-assistance-to-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/restore-food-assistance-to-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Restore food assistance to families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>No child should go hungry. Yet next month, new federal food stamps cuts will kick in, affecting nearly a quarter-million Washington households.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Already, one in four children live in households that do not have enough food. Furthermore, when schools close for long breaks, children who are on free\/reduced meals do not receive the necessary food assistance.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The state Legislature can help. Three years ago, during the recession, it slashed the state-based Food Assistance program by 50 percent. Last year, it partially restored State Food Assistance up to 75 percent of the level provided by federal food stamps.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Now it is time for them to restore full assistance. We have the money to get kids the food they need to learn and grow: the state Legislature is working out a 2014-15 budget that includes $60 million in additional revenue. Lawmakers need to restore equal benefits for families that count on State Food Assistance.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 Maya Vengadasalam<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No child should go hungry. Yet next month, new federal food stamps cuts will kick in, affecting nearly a quarter-million Washington households.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-21607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21607"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}