Move all means-tested antipoverty programs to Health and Human Services
What the document says“All means-tested antipoverty programs should be overseen by one department—specifically HHS, which handles most welfare programs.”
This would move food stamps and related nutrition programs out of the Agriculture Department, which currently administers them, and into the department that runs most other welfare programs.
What the document actually says“All means-tested antipoverty programs should be overseen by one department—specifically HHS, which handles most welfare programs.”
One department should run all the programs that help poor people. It should be the health department.
Food stamps are run by the farming department today. Most other help for poor people is run elsewhere. The book says one department should run them all.
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