Analysis finds more than 4 million Americans lost Snap benefits, or food stamps, from July 2025 to March 2026

Arizona recorded the largest drop in enrollment after the bill became law. The legislation tightened eligibility rules for food assistance and increased state screening requirements. State data through May shows that more than 450,000 Arizonans have come off Snap, cutting overall participation within the state in half.

According to the CBPP analysis, children make up a significant portion of those losing benefits, with more than 1 million children across the 19 states studied no longer receiving Snap assistance.

In Louisiana, nearly one in four children receiving Snap benefits lost assistance. Massachusetts and Texas each saw close to one-fifth of children enrolled in the program removed from Snap.

And further below, the cause for the suffering of children:

The report says the steep decline in participation is likely tied in large part to the 2025 Republican reconciliation law, also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which shifted a substantial share of Snap benefit costs to states based on their payment error rates.

  • mildseason@sopuli.xyz
    61·
    4 days ago

    It’s actually a human right as defined by the UN - https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

    Article 25

    Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control

    Goes very nicely with

    Article 22

    Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality

    Does the US uphold human rights? No. That’s the main issue here.

    • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 days ago

      So you believe everyone should get free government provided food, clothing, and housing?

      Then by your definition there’s not a single country in the world that upholds human rights.

      Should Elon musk be given free food, clothes, and housing by the government?

        • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 days ago

          So you agree that not a single country on earth, not even the communist ones, uphold human rights, correct?

          You think a trillionaire should be given free food, clothes, and housing by the government. That’s absurd.

          Also who is paying for all this food, clothing, and housing? What type of housing? Do you get free housing wherever you decide to move at any time? How much food do you get per week? What clothes do you get?

          • capital_sniff@lemmy.world
            31·
            3 days ago

            I am pointing out that the government already subsidized Elon. What he decides to do with that money has been largely left up to him. So yes, we the people have provided Elon with the housing and feeding of his questionable ideas in the form of Twitter.

            • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world
              12·
              2 days ago

              Elon musk isn’t subsidised by the government - his companies are. His companies that employ how many tens of thousands of people?

              Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think government subsidies should be a thing without taking part ownership for every $1 of subsidy, but that’s neither here nor there.

              No one is owed free food, clothing, or housing.

              • capital_sniff@lemmy.world
                11·
                2 days ago

                So your argument is everyone needs to form themselves into a corporation so the government can then subsidize not them but their corporation thus letting the sweet largesse trickle down on the people?

                • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  2 days ago

                  I’m not sure you understand how subsidies work. Actually no I know you don’t.

                  If you want to start a business and get subsidies from the government go for it. You don’t just get rich personally.

        • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 days ago

          That’s absurd. Who is paying for all this free stuff? Who is making it? If you want to move state, do you get a free house there as well?

          • mildseason@sopuli.xyz
            21·
            3 days ago

            If you work a 40 hour week you should recieve food, shelter, medicine and entertainment.

            I believe this is achievable thanks to the incredible innovation over the past 2 centuries.

            What’s absurd is the current system. Where billionaires can extract from nations without giving anything back. It’s absurd that food for children is being cut to bomb children on the other side of the world.

            What I believe may sound absurd to you. But look at our reality. It’s fucking crazy!!

            • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 days ago

              Didn’t answer my question. Who is paying for it all? Who is making it? If you move do you get another free house?

              • mildseason@sopuli.xyz
                21·
                2 days ago

                The collective pays for it through tax collection. The people who already make it will still make it. If you wanted to move you would give up your current house and trade it for a different one.

                Why can you not imagine a better, fairer society?

                • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  2 days ago

                  Do you even understand the scale of the extra taxation that would be needed to provide everyone with free food, clothing, and housing?

                  You’d be taxing everyone 95% of their income lol You’d also have to have hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of empty housing vacancies in every single city at all times to accommodate people moving.

                  • mildseason@sopuli.xyz
                    11·
                    1 day ago

                    Yes! It would be extremely difficult but that’s the dream!

                    There’s already millions of empty homes due to capitilism. 100% tax on any income above $100,000,000 would be a start lol

      • mildseason@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        3 days ago

        I’m saying SNAP is funded through national effort and international cooperation. Which USians are entitled to as part of their basic human rights.