The price of hunger in the United States

Researchers in The Lancet wrote that Congress’s proposed cuts to Medicaid could cause 14,660 American deaths each year, which otherwise would not have happened. Unprecedented cuts to food benefits (SNAP) will make millions of people hungry and malnourished, increasing the risk of suffering and premature death. Russell Vought… director of the Office of Management and Budget, went on CNN and called these reports “totally ridiculous” and “astroturf.”