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Eliminate time limit on food stamps for ABAWDs, says Center on Budget

Lowest food-stamp enrollment in five years

The cost of the food stamp program, the premiere U.S. anti-hunger program, is falling in tandem with the enrollment, says the think tank Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.

Time limit on food stamps will disqualify 1 million people

Roughly 1 million people - 2 percent of current enrollment - will be cut off of food stamps during 2016 as states re-impose the three-month limit on benefits to unemployed adults from ages 18-50 who are not disabled or raising children...