1. National Grassroots
Conference Call
and Webinar
November 19, 2013
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A collective Christian voice urging our nation's leaders to end hunger at home and abroad .
2. National Grassroots Conference Call
and Webinar: Opening Welcome
LaVida Davis
Director, Organizing & Grassroots Capacity
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3. National Grassroots Conference Call
and Webinar: Opening Welcome
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4. Ways you can Support:
You can be a sponsoring organization, see list of
sponsors here http://fast4families.org/sponsors/
Sign your organization up here
http://www.onlineactions.org/page/s/organizations
Local Solidarity Action with DC Fasters
throughout the country through prayer services,
vigils, actions, rallies, public fasts and more
See Actions in your area here
http://fast4families.org/events/
Sign up for actions here
http://www.onlineactions.org/page/s/fast-echo-actions
Commit to Fast here
http://www.onlineactions.org/page/s/join-fast
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5. National Grassroots Conference Call
and Webinar
Questions for LaVida?
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6. National Grassroots Conference Call
and Webinar: Policy Update
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7. National Grassroots Conference
Call and Webinar: Farm Bill
Christine Melendez Ashley
Policy Analyst, domestic nutrition
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8. National Grassroots Conference Call
and Webinar
Farm Bill Recap
SENATE FARM BILL
•Passed 66-27 and included:
$4.1 billion in SNAP cuts
Some improvements to int’l
food aid
Some farm subsidy and
conservation program
reforms
•
Impact
450,000 households could
lose about $90 a month in
benefits
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9. Farm Bill Recap House Farm Bill
•Farm only and nutrition only
bills included:
$39 billion in SNAP cuts
$2.5 billion food aid cut
78% food aid quality cut
•
Impact
Nearly 4 million Americans off
SNAP
210,000 American children
lose free school meals
Reduced SNAP benefits for
850,000 households
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10. SNAP and ARRA
•
November 1 SNAP Cuts
$11 billion total cut over 3
years
A family of 4 lost up to $36 a
month
Equivalent of cutting 10
million SNAP meals a day
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11. Next Steps
• Current farm law expired
Sept. 30
• Conference committee
• Budget negotiations?
• Extension?
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12. Our Message
•
Oppose cuts to SNAP in any
final farm bill
•
On Nov. 1, all SNAP households
already saw monthly benefits
reduced – whether or not
Congress is able to pass a farm
bill
•
Support Senate improvements
to international food aid
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13. National Grassroots Conference Call
and Webinar
Questions for Christine?
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14. National Grassroots Conference
Call and Webinar: Budget
Amelia Kegan
Senior Policy Analyst, budget
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16. Time is Running Out:
•
10 legislative days left
•
1 week of overlap
•
Not another government
shutdown
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17. The Key Questions:
•
Real revenues?
•
Parity between defense
and non-defense
spending?
•
Protect anti-hunger
programs from cuts?
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18. Biggest Threat:
So anxious to get a deal that ends up
leaving out what should be lifted up
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19. Our Message:
•
Replace sequestration
with revenues and
responsible spending cuts
•
Protect non-defense
spending from
sequestration just as
much as defense
spending
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20. National Grassroots Conference Call
and Webinar
Questions for Amelia?
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21. National Grassroots Conference
Call and Webinar
Next Steps
• Biggest takeaways
• Next Call: December 17th,
4pm
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Editor's Notes
As of October 1, Congress has once again allowed the farm bill to expire, and these programs are now at risk of becoming permanently “stranded” without funding. These stranded programs impact over half of the agricultural sector – including fruit and vegetable, organic, renewable energy, livestock, minority, and beginning farmers – and invest in sustainable food systems, rural job creation, and the next generation of farmers. Unless Congress takes action, these innovative and forward-looking programs will disappear
