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Families, agencies brace for big food stamp cuts
Programs funding is in jeopardy while Congress considers farm bill changes
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The point of desperation for Jeff Bagwell happened more than a year ago when he came home from his job delivering pizzas to find all his wife and two kids had to eat was peanut butter and ramen noodles. The Bagwell family gets help from food stamps through a federal program called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, but that help is in jeopardy. Food stamp recipients already face a reduction of about $27 a month in assistance starting later this year because of a stimulus program that is expiring.