A supermarket displays stickers indicating they accept food stamps in West New York, N.J., Monday, ... [+] Jan. 12, 2015. AP Photo/Seth WenigTopline: Fourteen states, Washington D.C. and New York City sued to block a Trump administration rule on Thursday that would push 700,000 people off food stamps in the latest standoff between Trump and blue states. States have often gotten waivers from the time-limit rule in areas lacking enough jobs, but the new rule would raise the minimum unemployment rate in waived counties to 6%. But the states argue in the lawsuit that countywide unemployment data is not always an accurate depiction of real-world labor conditions. “A local area with an overall 5.8% unemployment rate can have an African American unemployment rate closer to 10%, as well as an unemployment rate around 10% for people of all races who are age 25 or over who lack a high school diploma or GED,” the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities said in a December statement.

Source: Forbes January 16, 2020 22:07 UTC