Friday, April 29, 2011
1:10 p.m.
CARSON CITY (click title to entry - thank you) – Some state workers would qualify for food stamps if proposed cuts in pay and benefits are approved, a labor representative says.Kevin Ranft of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, said a bill to reduce overtime pay, sick and annual leave was “another attack” on state workers. He and others testified today before the Assembly Ways and Means Committee to oppose Assembly Bill 560, which would also continue suspension of merit and longevity pay....
...The Republican war on women (click here) is more than just cutting off access to reproductive rights, health care, and birth control. Now it's becoming more and more clear that every platform they push is in some way an assault on women's lives and ability to raise their families.
Even in the GOP proposal to "reform" food stamps.
Judy Molland reported earlier in April about the Ryan budget plan's plank to turn food stamps into a block grant that would be handed to the states, opening them up to the possibility of reallocating the funds to places other than their original purposes: feeding the hungry....
