Letter: Cutting the Food Stamp program known as SNAP is a terrible idea

Debbie Baskin (“Cuts to the SNAP program will take food from the mouths of babes”) is right: cutting the Food Stamp program known as Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) by 30 percent is a terrible idea.Instead we should be increasing benefits for poor children and their families so they can eat.A recent study found that in 99 percent of counties across the U.S. (including all 29 counties in Utah) SNAP’s maximum per a meal benefit is less than the average cost of