Najuah Mudahy gets ready for one of her two jobs as her daughter, Ausara, sleeps. Mudahy says she runs out of money to feed Ausara before the end of each month
"The impoverished are forced to eat junk if we want to eat," said 32-year-old Tabitha, a mother of a 2-year-old and a 7-year-old staying at a Culver City shelter, who asked that her last name not be used because she said she was embarrassed. "It's going to be difficult, as it already has been."
The cut was triggered by the expiration of stimulus spending Congress approved in the depths of the Great Recession.
About 14% of Americans are on food stamps.
There are seven million Americans for whom food stamps is the only source of income, according to Kevin Concannon, undersecretary for food, nutrition and consumer services at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
"It would be like asking someone running a marathon with a 100-pound pack on their back to take on another couple hundred pounds," he said. "They don't have the capacity to do this."
Officials in other big states are also alarmed.
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