Brady, Kitchen Protest Food-Stamp Test

Congressman Robert A.Brady (D-Phila.), State Sen.Shirley Kitchen (D-N. Phila.) and other elected officials and advocates gathered last week to blast Pennsylvania’s proposed asset test for recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

“This proposed asset test will force families who are looking at poverty in the face choose between having a few dollars saved as a safety net and being able to feed their families,” the Congressman said. Brady has written to Gov. Tom Corbett to reconsider implementation of the asset test. “This asset test will hurt and make life harder for low-income families; increase the work of State caseworkers who are drowning now in additional paperwork. It will hurt business,” explained Brady.

The Congressman said it was important he join Sen. Kitchen to thank her for her leadership. “The fight to end hunger and poverty in one of the richest countries in the world will only be won by federal, state and local governments working side-by-side with community-based advocates,” he insisted.

FROM LEFT, Congressman Bob Brady, State Sen. Shirley Kitchen, State Rep. Michelle Brownlee and Steveanna Wynn, executive director of SHARE Food Program, Inc., discussd evastating impact of Corbett Administration’s plan to implement an asset test on SNAP recipients. Photo: Martin Regusters, Leaping Lion Photography

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