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TRENTON, N.J. 聽鈥?While Gov. Chris Christie was busy catching heat Monday for his family time on a beach to which he had blocked public access, a stalemate over the state budget stretched into a third day without a resolution in sight.Spokesman Brian Murray said the governor was back in Trenton on Monday, a day after he was photographed by NJ at a closed state park lounging in a beach chair in sandals, shorts and a T-shirt.State parks are shut down along with other nonessential state services, including state courts and the motor vehicle offices where people go to get driver licenses. Tens of thousands of state workers are furloughed until Christie signs off on a state budget.Here a closer look at the standoff over the $34.7 billion budget:BATTLE OF EGOSOn the surface the budget stalemate revolves around Christie desire to overhaul Horizon Blue Cross stanley cup Blue Shield, but also in play are the strong personalities of the three principals responsible for passing the budget.Christie, the brash, tell-it-like-it-is former federal prosecutor whose presidential campaign derailed in part because President Donald Trump played that role better, ha stanley cup s staked his final year as governor on ov stanley cup erhauling the nonprofit insurer in exchange for his support of more than $300 million worth of Democratic spending priorities.Christie describes himself as Mr. Reasonable but won ;t waive his line-item authority that has some Democrats worried.Democratic Sena Oheg U.S. consumer sentiment drops to 6-month low on inflation, unemployment fears
The Trump administration has proposed a new rule that could eliminate food stamp benefits for 3.1 million Americans if the change goes into effect.The proposal could save the federal government $9.3 billion over five years. But some worry that this policy could come at too high a cost, if families lose the ability to buy enough food they otherwise could not afford.SNAP, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, feeds an estimated 36.3 million Americans in 43 states, the District of Columbia, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands, according to preliminary data from the USDA from March. Thats down from a post-Great Recession peak of 47.6 million people.The progra stanley cup m was designed to allow states to automatically enroll people and ease the administrative burden of distributing food benefits without essentially auditing each potential recipient. Thus, in stanley cup the past, it hasnt asked recipients to prove they qualified if they already met the minimum threshold to receive benefits through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, another federal social safety net benefit.Now the Trump administration wants to ensure that people who have at least a couple thousand dollars stashed away cant get assistance. As a result, its estimated that 8 percent of people stanley cup currently enrolled on SNAP would lose their benefits.What impact would these changes have on the program and low-income Americans The PBS NewsHour asked food insecurity and poverty experts for insights.What is the proposed c |
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