People of Faith Succeed in Curtailing Cuts to Programs for Vulnerable People

People of Faith Succeed in Curtailing Cuts to Programs for Vulnerable People

To: NATIONAL AND RELIGION EDITORS

Contact: Kristen Youngblood, +1-202-688-1118 office, +1-202-423-7379 cell, kyoungblood@bread.org, or Racine Tucker-Hamilton, +1-202-688-1138 office, +1-301-922-8417 cell, rhamilton@bread.org, both of Bread for a World

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With Congress' last-minute prolongation of unemployment benefits, Bread for a World is celebrating startling success in avoiding cuts to programs focused on inspired and bad people over a march of 2011.

"We will need a stability swell of advocacy for bad people in 2012," pronounced Rev. David Beckmann, boss of Bread for a World. "But we can be speedy by what Bread for a World and a groups who worked with us helped to grasp in 2011."

In April, a House of Representatives' bill due deep cuts in supervision spending over 10 years, with two-thirds of those cuts destined to programs focused on bad people. In August, Congress and a boss concluded on a Budget Control Act, that mandates across-the-board spending cuts of $2 trillion over 10 years--but, remarkably, exempts some of a categorical programs focused on bad people in a United States from these involuntary cuts.

"This is a outrageous victory," pronounced Beckmann. "We will need to work tough in 2012 to say what we have won and to urge programs such as WIC and general growth assistance that will be strike by a across-the-board cuts."

The House of Representatives also voted for deep, evident cuts in general aid. Their due cut in food assist would have separated food assist rations for 14 million of a world's many unfortunate people. But Bread for a World mobilized a network and helped lift together an rare bloc of organizations that caring about a public aspects of U.S. general relations. In a appropriations bills that finally upheld Congress, there were no poignant cuts to a general assist programs that assistance to revoke poverty.

Congress finished a year with nonetheless another standoff, this time melancholy to lift payroll taxes for all operative Americans and chuck scarcely 2 million people off stagnation word in January. Millions of people who accept stagnation word are on a corner of poverty. In a end, a House of Representatives concluded to a two-month prolongation of a stream law.

Beckmann sums adult a year: "We still face heated and formidable domestic pressures to cut spending, generally spending that helps bad people. But we appreciate God that Congress and a President done decisions this year that will revoke sovereign deficits, nonetheless avoided low cuts in programs that assistance families who are struggling to feed their children. This is a conspicuous achievement, generally for a faith groups that rallied to form a round of insurance around inspired and bad people. It is also reason to give interjection to God."

Bread for a World (www.bread.org) is a common Christian voice propelling a nation's preference makers to finish craving during home and abroad.

SOURCE Bread for a World

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