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Autumn Moen @autumnmoen.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Did you know that SNAP supports roughly 388,000 jobs across the food industry? Cuts to SNAP will impact grocers across the country, particularly in rural areas.

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Food Stamp Cuts Could Deal a Blow to Small Grocers

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Autumn Moen @autumnmoen.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Rural grocery stores may be forced to close if the #SNAP cuts in the 'Big Beautiful Bill' are passed. This would be devastating for rural communities across the country, who already face higher rates of hunger.

al.com

Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ food stamp cuts may kill rural grocery stores: ‘We already have hungry kids’

Together, the changes would remove more than 3 million Americans from SNAP.

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Autumn Moen @autumnmoen.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

What would you do if you lost healthcare coverage? What if your money for groceries was slashed? That’s the reality hundreds of thousands of Vermonters could face if the #Senate does not protect #Medicaid & #SNAP in their budget. This isn’t just a program. It’s people’s lives.

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Autumn Moen @autumnmoen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

#SNAP feeds kids, but the "Big Beautiful Bill" abandons a 50-year promise that children in rural towns or urban centers won’t go hungry. And for the first time, it rips assistance from working parents just trying to put food on the table. Vermont kids will pay the price.

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Autumn Moen @autumnmoen.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Thank you Congresswoman Balint (@balint.house.gov) for voting NO on billion $ budget cuts that take away the food assistance & healthcare that millions of Vermonters count on- all to pay for tax breaks for the ultra wealthy. We are grateful for leaders like you who put our health & wellbeing first.

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Rep Jahana Hayes @repjahanahayes.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🚨 This bill gets more egregious by the minute. Rules just dropped an amended “Big Beautiful Bill” that includes a provision to pressure health exchange plans to drop abortion services except in the case of rape or the life of the mother, even if federal funds are not used to cover the services.

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Autumn Moen @autumnmoen.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

So tens of millions of people are going to lose Medicaid and SNAP as part of this shady budget reconciliation process that continues to happen in the middle of the night when no one is awake to watch, and NO major news podcast had bothered to cover it?!

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Rep Jahana Hayes @repjahanahayes.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Alert 🚨 Have you seen my colleagues?? Republicans want to lower the age of a minor from 18 to 7, meaning once a child turns 7 their parents will be kicked off of SNAP if they don’t meet the work requirements. Rs have left the room & refuse to defend this policy. ALL THEIR SEATS ARE EMPTY!

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Rep. Angie Craig @repangiecraig.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

The Republican-proposed SNAP cut would be the largest rollback of an anti-hunger program in our nation’s history. It will take food off the table for families and single moms, force rural grocery stores to close and make our farmers poorer. It’s a hard no from me.

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Autumn Moen @autumnmoen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

As Rep. Sorensen (IL-17) said in his opening remarks - "You want to increase work requirements [for SNAP recipients] but you can't even show up for work!" Shameful to not even be present and accountable for the cruelty they are unleashing on people in their own districts, and all over the country.

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Autumn Moen @autumnmoen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Reminder that the House Ag Committee is meeting today to finalize their plan to cut SNAP by $290M (yes, they have increased the proposed cuts!) while increasing aid to commodity farmers who, by the way, don't grow crops that feed people!!

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Rep Jahana Hayes @repjahanahayes.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Tonight, the House Agriculture Committee will begin to markup the Republican reconciliation bill that proposes $313B in cuts to SNAP. We expect this to last well into the night, but I am prepared to advocate on behalf of every hungry child, family, and senior — for as long as it takes.

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Marcia Brown @marciabrown.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Bayer, which makes the pesticide glyphosate, has an interactive exhibit in Washington, DC’s Union Station advertising the chemical’s benefits and warning that, without it, food prices will go up more. Bayer is facing thousands of lawsuits from plaintiffs who say glyphosate caused their cancer.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/04/2025

Breaking News: Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia University student and organizer of the pro-Palestinian movement, was freed from federal custody on Wednesday after ICE tried to rescind his green card and deport him. nyti.ms/4iGIa0m

Mohsen Mahdawi wearing a keffiyeh scarf as he stands atop a platform, surrounded by people. The text reads: "Columbia Student Who Was Arrested at Citizenship Interview Is Freed." Photo by Bing Guan for The New York Times.

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Autumn Moen @autumnmoen.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Today is the Northeast Region SNAP Day of Action! Organizations from across New England and New York have planned this day to mobilize folks to contact their legislators and ask them to say NO to any cuts to SNAP!!

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Autumn Moen @autumnmoen.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Turns out that providing meals at school with no cost increases participation!! [shock!] Free meals decrease stigma, improve kids health, foster better learning environments, and help reach families who don't otherwise qualify for free meals but are struggling to meet their basic needs.

frac.org

The Reach of School Breakfast and Lunch During the 2023–2024 School Year - Food Research & Action Center

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Autumn Moen @autumnmoen.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Cuts to SNAP will force Americans into hunger while also taking a sledge hammer to small grocery stores that depend on the vast amount of federal dollars spent at their stores. This will be especially devastating for rural and low-income communities.

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Autumn Moen @autumnmoen.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Passing a budget blueprint that lays out a path to push tens of millions of Americans into poverty at a time when hunger is on the rise is evil, cruel, disgusting, and unfortunately, not surprising.

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Autumn Moen @autumnmoen.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Remember, R's want to take food out of the mouths of young children to make room for tax cuts to the wealthiest people in America. "...based on the SNAP cuts alone, proposed cuts could put hundreds of thousands of infants and young children at risk of losing their automatic eligibility for WIC."

frac.org

Proposed Cuts to SNAP and Medicaid Would Negatively Impact WIC - Food Research & Action Center

Published April 4, 2025 Proposed Cuts to SNAP and Medicaid Would Negatively Impact WIC The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides essential nutrition s...

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Grist @grist.org · 20/02/2025

The people who feed America are going hungry. Climate change is escalating a national crisis, leaving farmworkers with empty plates and mounting costs. grist.org/food-and-agr... #Food #Hunger #Farms #Agriculture #Immigration

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The people who feed America are going hungry

Climate change is escalating a national crisis, leaving farmworkers with empty plates and mounting costs.

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Autumn Moen @autumnmoen.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The mass firing of federal employees is hitting critical food systems researchers here in Vermont:

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Folks interested in sustainable food, food systems and farming. go.bsky.app/7uYC2Zu

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