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Access to Resources Poverty, Food and Government Assistance

Access to Resources Poverty, Food and Government Assistance

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Poverty, Food and Government Assistance

Why Assistance?

Wilmington

Graphics and data from Delaware Criminal Justice Council 2005

The breakdown

Income by district (example)

Violence by district

The top 5 things we learned nationally about our progress to cut poverty in half by 2020…

#1 The economy grew…but so did income inequality

#4 Tax credits & nutrition assistance kept families out of poverty

http://talkpoverty.org/state-year-report/delaware-2015-report/

Why are these significant?

SNAPO The First Food Stamp Program (May

16, 1939)O Multiple revisions and changesO Recently, cuts in November 2013O Cuts included in Farm Bill in January

2014

Changes to Snap