A very cruel cut

From today's Courier-Journal:

As more Kentuckians slide into poverty, five of our state’s six congressmen voted Thursday to slash funding for food stamps, an action that would impoverish even more of their constituents.

In a stunningly cruel vote, Republican Reps. Andy Barr, Brett Guthrie, Thomas Massie, Hal Rogers and Ed Whitfield joined most of their GOP colleagues to pass a bill to cut $40 billion over the next 10 years from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.

...The news comes as the U.S. Census reports that in much of the nation, the poverty rate remained stubbornly unchanged but worsened in Kentucky where about one-fifth of 4.3 million residents live in poverty, The Courier-Journal’s Chris Kenning reported Thursday. For a family of four, the poverty line is a whopping annual income of about $23,500 or less.