Food stamps, housing subsidies and other services for America’s poor at risk as shutdown drags on
on Thu, 2019-01-10 09:58 Alyssa
The waterlogged ceiling of Betty Gay’s rural Kentucky home sags so low that she hits her head on the light fixture. She’s only 5-foot-1. When it rains, the retired nurse’s aide covers her bathroom floor with buckets and towels. Mold festers on the damp walls.
Gay, 70, was counting on a $20,000 loan from the Agriculture Department this winter to patch the hole in the roof of the ranch-style Mount Sterling home she’s lived in for 30 years.
But the money is on hold.
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[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/food-stamps-housing-subsidies-and-other-services-for-vulnerable-americans-in-jeopardy-as-shutdown-drags-on/2019/01/09/e025549c-1374-11e9-803c-4ef28312c8b9_story.html?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-80B1gOcDenlev_yQSeEBNO3nvxh3Sr5WO8KcjTfSBvdumijpI7ucIz_ujfYSUjzbvHMjyESvnLzLyZRth9x1cQikwrsQ&_hsmi=68889263&utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&utm_content=68889263&utm_medium=email&utm_source=hs_email&utm_term=.316186e8091a