- Seven in 10 voters say that cutting food stamp funding is the wrong way to reduce government spending and Nearly three in four (73 percent) voters believe the food stamp program is very or fairly important for the country.
- When voters learn that Congress is considering cutting billions of dollars from the food stamp program to reduce government spending, 70 percent say this is the wrong way to reduce spending—over half (51 percent) feel strongly about this—while just 30 percent favor the cuts. Women oppose cuts by 73 percent.
- Voters in rural communities and small towns reject cuts decisively, by 68 percent to 32 percent. Support for food stamps also crosses generational lines—67 percent of both young voters (under age 35) and seniors reject food stamp cuts.
- Rural and small town voters also are more likely to favor greater government spending to address hunger (39 percent) than less (31 percent), as are voters with children under 18 (48 percent to 23 percent).
- Republican support for cuts is modest at best: 37 percent of Republicans say that the federal government should spend less, while 63 percent of Republicans want to see current spending levels continue (34 percent) or increase (29 percent).
- Voters also were posed a choice between cutting food assistance to low-income families or cutting subsidies to farmers as a way to reduce federal spending. A plurality of voters (51 percent) chooses neither to cut, but more voters would rather see cuts in subsidies to farmers (34 percent) than cuts to food assistance for low-income households (19 percent). Among the majority of voters who do make a choice, reducing spending on subsidies for farmers is the preferred choice for nearly all major population groups, including voters living in the Midwest, the South, rural and small town voters, and Republicans.
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Thursday, May 9, 2013
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