Kids & Family
Payne Giving Away Free Thanksgiving Baskets Wednesday in Newark
Effort to spotlight Payne's opposition to proposed reductions in SNAP food benefits
Rep. Donald Payne will be presenting Thanksgiving baskets to those in need Wednesday at 10:30 am at the offices of the Newark Emergency Services for Families offices at 982 Broad St.
The NESF will be co-hosting the event, which Payne said is intended to highlight to raise awareness of what he described as the “absolutely immoral” reductions by Congress to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (“SNAP”), commonly known as food stamps.
The baskets will contain all the fixings for a traditional Thanksgiving meal, including a turkey, stuffing, green beans, yams, and other canned good items.
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Earlier this year, the Senate passed a farm bill that would cut SNAP by $4 billion over the next ten years. Rep. Payne, Jr. voted against the Republican measure that would cut SNAP by ten times that amount, or $40 billion dollars over the next ten years, kicking more than 4 million Americans off of SNAP almost immediately. The two chambers are currently conferring to resolve the massive difference between in reductions to SNAP.
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