Recently the federal government revealed that one in 10 Ohio households couldn't afford sufficient food at some point during the year. That's a 25 percent increase since an earlier reporting period of 1999-2001. So how did Congress react to this alarming news? They decided to cut 200,000 Americans off the Food Stamp program - the nation's number one anti-hunger program. Not only that, they also passed cuts in child support, child care, medical care, and student loans that mean that low-wage working families will see their budgets shrink smaller and smaller. Read more about this in an excellent op-ed in the Columbus Dispatch by Lisa Hamler-Fuggitt of the Ohio Association of Second Harvest Foodbanks http://www.dispatch.com/editorials-story.php?story=dispatch/2005/11/23/20051123-A11-04.html&chck=t

Oh, and by the way, at the same time members of Congress passed this budget turkey, they gave themselves a $3,100 pay raise. How's that for shared sacrifice.