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A buried provision in the “big beautiful bill” effectively penalizes single parents who receive SNAP, or food stamps, as compared to households headed by married couples.

The provision is part of new stricter SNAP work requirements included in the bill, which are the first of their kind.

Advocates for the disadvantaged say these proposed changes to the program will result in millions of Americans losing vital assistance.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    18·
    10 days ago

    A buried provision in the “big beautiful bill” effectively penalizes single parents who receive SNAP, or food stamps, as compared to households headed by married couples.

    So it hits single parents disproportionately hard, when normally one would expect them to require more aid, if anything.

    On an entirely-unrelated note, Visual Capitalist has a nice visualization of the percentage of mothers who are single in the US by ethnicity.

    https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-single-mothers-in-america-by-ethnicity/

    https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/146a7495-a525-4efb-a4f8-d739b3243c05.webp

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      9·
      10 days ago

      does an inquisitive search on Kagi

      https://www.sicklecelldisease.org/2025/04/09/advocacy-alert-save-the-sickle-cell-data-collection-program/

      Last week, the Trump administration announced drastic changes and reductions to federal health programs that support the sickle cell disease community. Specifically, on April 1, all the staff that oversee the Sickle Cell Data Collection (SCDC) Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were terminated.

      https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36710488/

      Racial and ethnic differences in sickle cell disease within the United States: From demographics to outcomes

      Results: Of the 74 817 hospitalized for sickle cell disease, 69 889 (93.4%) were Blacks, 3603 (4.8%) were Hispanics, and 1325 (1.8%) were Whites. Compared to Whites, Blacks were more likely to have significantly higher odds of sickle cell crisis (odds ratio [OR]: 3.32; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 2.66-4.14) and blood transfusion (OR: 1.66; 95% CI: 1.37-2.02).

      Yeah.

      That’s just one datapoint, of course, but I am thinking that it might be interesting to do some data-mining on various Trump administration cuts and the degree to which the cuts affect different ethnic groups.

      • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
        8·
        10 days ago

        I am CERTAIN that you will be entirely unsurprised by the result of that data. Project 2025 absolutely is trying to make being white the only way to live life.