加州食品银行协会关于税收计划通过的声明

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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

媒体联系人：
丹妮拉·奥格登（Daniela Ogden）， daniela@cafoodbanks.org
(510) 350-9919

奥克兰 –Anti-hunger advocates warn that today’s passing of the GOP tax plan foreshadows sweeping cuts to critical nutrition safety-net programs. The widely unpopular plan is tilted to the wealthy and slashes trillions of dollars over ten years from programs that serve people with low and moderate incomes, including cuts to Medicaid and Medicare, income assistance for working-poor and other struggling families, nutrition assistance programs like Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly known as food stamps), college affordability, job training and education, environmental protections, and public health initiatives.

The vote occurs as millions of working families across the country are spending the holiday season worried about making ends meet. The plan offers little promise of improvement in the quality of life for the majority of Californians with the bulk of tax cuts going to the wealthiest one percent.

“The fight to end hunger in California doesn’t end with Congress passing this misguided tax plan,” said Sue Sigler, Executive Director of California Association of Food Banks. “In fact, we are more determined than ever to speak out for the low and middle-income families that rely on food banks and safety-net programs like Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.”

考虑到住房成本，加利福尼亚州生活在贫困线以下的人口比例最高。八分之一的家庭面临饥饿。饥饿对儿童和老年人的影响不成比例。加州每四个孩子中就有一个每晚饿着肚子上床睡觉。

“The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program remains one of America’s most successful ways to keep people from going without food and we remain committed to speaking out on behalf of the millions of working people that rely on it,” said Sigler.

CAFB可以接触当地食品银行和受这些削减影响的客户的发言人，他们可以就此问题发表演讲。

关于加州食品银行协会

加州食品银行协会与41家食品银行和6,000多家地方机构合作。我们的使命是消除加利福尼亚的饥饿，我们的愿景是提供营养丰富且无饥饿的加利福尼亚，在那里所有人都有足够的食物过上健康的生活。要了解更多信息，请访问www.cafoodbanks.org。

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