[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 15 (Monday, January 27, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H1262]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           INCOME INEQUALITY

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, in a few minutes, I will join my 
colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus to discuss a very 
important topic that has long been one of our crucial issues 
proliferating now across America and around the world--income 
inequality--but I wanted to rise as I understand the farm bill is now 
prepared to go to the Rules Committee, and now will be on the floor of 
the House this week.
  In an Associated Press article on ``The New Face of Food Stamps--
Working-Age Americans,'' now, in 2013-2014, 50 percent of those 
receiving food stamps are working Americans, such as the young lady 
pictured here, who is 25 years old, with a 3-year-old son, who, yes, 
was in the United States Army.
  When are we going to realize that even though the economy is churning 
and that the jobs being created are low-wage jobs that the working and 
middle class need our help? It is not a handout. It is not a way to be 
able to close the deficit and the debt, which is closing by breaking 
the backs of hardworking Americans. What a shame that a farm bill would 
come forward as it has never come forward before, and it takes away a 
lifeline for hardworking Americans.

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