A waiver now turns on being off the mainland and having high joblessness
What the document says“is in a noncontiguous State and has an unemployment rate that is at or above 1.5 times the national unemployment rate.”
The section strikes clause (ii) of section 6(o)(4)(A) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2015(o)(4)) and inserts the quoted test, and adds a definition under which a noncontiguous State means a State that is not one of the contiguous 48 States or the District of Columbia, not including Guam or the Virgin Islands of the United States.
What the document actually says“is in a noncontiguous State and has an unemployment rate that is at or above 1.5 times the national unemployment rate.”
The state must be off the mainland. Its rate of joblessness must be at least 1.5 times the national rate.
A state off the mainland is one outside the lower 48 and the capital. Guam and the Virgin Islands do not count as one here.
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