people like catherine mackinnon the plaster. each month she gets three hundred fifty dollars in food stamps. that money goes to feed her and her three grandchildren. each of them and when her daughter died in omaha pivotal to the kick ahead of a typical family of four receiving assistance will get about thirty six dollars less this month. all because the american federal food stamp program last five billion dollars overnight the us congress but the money for the program run out after these costs the average benefit per person per meal will be a dollar forty and forty cents the cuts come as more americans are depending on food stamps to feed their families. there are now more than twice as many americans in the program then in the year two thousand nearly one out of every seven americans we have so much of economic and security in this country people losing jobs people get going from full time work part time work half of all trooper on food stamps at some point during childhood half of all adults the united states congress looks