Angelina Jolie urges Congress to embody some-more families underneath food assistance program
Actress Angelina Jolie has urged Congress to embody some-more families underneath a food assistance module called Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as a kids are going hungry.
Jolie – in her minute to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell – has remarkable that some-more series of relatives need to come underneath a SNAP to make certain that kids do not go to bed hungry.
The singer wrote: “Many people have mislaid their jobs and a daily salary workers are exceedingly impacted due to a coronavirus crisis. Jolie states that kids whose relatives have mislaid out on their sources of income have not perceived scarcely 740 million dishes as a schools opposite United States have been close due to a ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.”
Last month, The US Department of Agriculture announced that a advantages of a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program had been increasing by 40 percent.
As per a latest news reports, around 22 million Americans have filed for unemployment, overdue to a Coronavirus lockdown.
