http://www.thegrio.com/politics/gop-budget-bill-takes-aim-at-food-assistance-programs.php THIS BILL DOESN'T DISCRIMINATE IT AFFECTS ALL RACES,ALL STATES,THE YOUNG AND THE ELDERLY PEOPLE AND IT'S NOT JUST EFFECTING FOOD PROGRAMS Hoyer's office released an outline of which programs would be most severely cut under the newly passed budget reconciliation bill. *Slashes food assistance by $35.8 billion - reducing food stamps to all recipients and cutting access to SNAP to nearly two million people at a time when families can least afford it. *Permanently eliminates the Social Services Block Grant program, which provides assistance for roughly 23 million Americans, including: *Child care and related assistance for 4.4 million children, "Meals on Wheels" and other home-based services for nearly 1.7 million older Americans, *Child protective services for 1.8 million at-risk children, *Transportation, respite care and other services for nearly 1 million disabled individuals. *Politicizes the process of funding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an office created to protect consumers from predatory practices that contributed to the financial crisis. *Eliminates the Medicaid and CHIP Maintenance-of-Effort (MOE) requirement included as part of the Affordable Care Act, putting 300,000 children at risk of losing health insurance coverage, according to CBO. *Cuts the Prevention and Public Health Fund, which provided 61 communities and states with funding in fiscal year 2011 to implement health and wellness programs and benefited approximately 120 million Americans, according to HHS. *These budget cuts will be implemented in the 2013 fiscal year if the Republican budget passes the Senate. THE GOP budget bill takes aim at food assistance programs The bill aims to slash 300 million from the 2013 budget by implementing drastic cuts in assistance programs that would disproportionately impact American families and senior citizens... IT DON'T DISCRIMINATE IT AFFECTS ALL RACES THIS IS FOR ALL STATES Alabama: AL Alaska: AK Arizona: AZ Arkansas: AR California: CA Colorado: CO Connecticut: CT Delaware: DE Florida: FL Georgia: GA Hawaii: HI Idaho: ID Illinois: IL Indiana: IN Iowa: IA Kansas: KS Kentucky: KY Louisiana: LA Maine: ME Maryland: MD Massachusetts: MA Michigan: MI Minnesota: MN Mississippi: MS Missouri: MO Montana: MT Nebraska: NE Nevada: NV New Hampshire: NH New Jersey: NJ New Mexico: NM New York: NY North Carolina: NC North Dakota: ND Ohio: OH Oklahoma: OK Oregon: OR Pennsylvania: PA Rhode Island: RI South Carolina: SC South Dakota: SD Tennessee: TN Texas: TX Utah: UT Vermont: VT Virginia: VA Washington: WA West Virginia: WV Wisconsin: WI Wyoming: WY Abbreviations for US commonwealth/territory areas include: American Samoa: AS District of Columbia: DC Federated States of Micronesia: FM Guam: GU Marshall Islands: MH Northern Mariana Islands: MP Palau: PW Puerto Rico: PR Virgin Islands: VI Military "state" abbreviations are as follows: Armed Forces Africa: AE Armed Forces Americas: AA Armed Forces Canada: AE Armed Forces Europe: AE Armed Forces Middle East: AE Armed Forces Pacific: AP