Bread for the World Calls for More Help for Hungry Families
7 May 2008 17:24 Africa/Lagos Bread for the World Calls for More Help for Hungry Families WASHINGTON, May 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In his testimony this morning to the members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Bread for the World president David Beckmann said that a short-term solution is needed immediately to address rising food prices in the U.S. "A stimulus package should include funding to provide an immediate boost in food stamp benefit levels to help struggling families meet today's rising food prices, additional WIC funding to ensure that all eligible women and children continue to receive benefits, and additional funding for TEFAP so that food banks can help families weather higher food prices," he said. Rev. Beckmann asserted that the impact of rising food prices should not be viewed in isolation, rather, as one in a long list of increasing costs for basic needs, such as housing, childcare, healthcare and fuel, which, ...