Fully fund SNAP to end hunger

Thanks for running Dana Milbank’s excellent column on the “new round of punitive laws” against the poor. (“Why must we humiliate those in poverty?”) These laws are just a smokescreen to cause voters to forget the real problem: Hunger in the world’s richest country, is already affecting 1 in 6 American adults and 1 in 5 children? We know how to turn this around: Fully fund SNAP (formerly food stamps) to end hunger. Then work on a living wage, since more than 60 percent of recipients work and still qualify for food stamps (Coalition Against Hunger). The Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit are helping to keep people out of poverty, why not increase these? Of course none of this will happen unless people raise their voices and ask their representatives to do this. Enough calls and emails will make it good politics to end the tragedy of hunger in America.

Willie Dickerson

Snohomish