MAGA Cuts Starve Kansas?!?

Progressive newsies argue against austerity amid promises of an American "golden age" as locals cope with federal budget cuts. 

Here's their biggest beef . . . 

The One Big Beautiful Bill will cut food assistance to Kansas, with one recent estimate saying 27,000 Kansans would be kicked off the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. 

Laura Marsh, marketing director at the Merc Co+op, said 5% of total sales at its Lawrence and Kansas City, Kansas, locations were paid through SNAP. 

“In grocery, where margins are tight, small dips can have a big impact,” Marsh said over email. “Cuts to SNAP — particularly at this scale — will be deeply felt.”

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

One Big Beautiful Bill will close grocery stores and create new food deserts in Kansas

Researchers and grocery stores say the Republican-backed law only makes it harder for grocery stores to survive, and the profit margins are already low.