Gov. Jay Nixon has requested a cut in food stamps. I implore the governor to think back just two years ago, when he visited a St. Louis Area Foodbank and saw first-hand the suffering and economic hardships our citizens are enduring in this economic downturn. It has not gotten any better.
Missouri ranks second in the nation for severely hungry individuals and is ranked seventh for “food insecurity,” which defines hunger as a person’s insecurity as to the time and place of their next meal.
Cutting food stamps at this time is nothing less than callous, and I will use every and all means to organize and mobilize opposition to this uncommonly cruel action by our governor.
State Sen. Jamilah Nasheed
St. Louis