No Kid Hungry, a national campaign that advocates connecting thousands of hungry children with nourishing meals, features a page on their website, entitled "Your SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) Stories." There, individuals are able to share personal stories about their positive experiences with SNAP, and how this temporary measure has boosted stability in their homes; it's insured that their families have meals on their tables and it has offered a "stepping stone - helping children go from survival to success." Though, these individuals and millions of others who are dependent on that assistance will be saddened to discover that will be significant cuts made to the program that has assisted them so much.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which provides food assistance to the impoverished individuals of a certain income - including millions of Latino families, will suffer a $5 billion cut to their budget this coming Friday.

The SNAP program offers their service to 47 million Americans, 17 percent of the participants are Latinos. That means that 7,990,000 Latinos will receive a five percent reduction to their benefits, roughly a reduction of 16 meals per month.

Huffington Post put the situation into perspective, stating, "a family of four will see their monthly benefits go from $668 per month down to $632. For one individual, the benefits will drop from $200 per month to $189."

The rise in unemployment rates has driven up participation in the program, increasing as the eligibility requirements has changed. Between 2007 and 2012, SNAP participation grew 110 percent, in just five short years. The discount in funding could also be attributed to the $818 million in direct fraud and trafficking in benefits, reported by the USDA in 2012; also, the $2.2 billion in erroneous payouts in 2012 indicated by Cato Institute. In addition, Rep. Marlin Strutzman maintains that the food stamp program costs/and will cost tax payers a lot of money - over $760 over the next ten years. In 2012, SNAP cost $80 billion.

House Republicans voted to pass the bill in September of this year to cut SNAP spending - mainly concerning food stamps- by $39 billion over the next 10 years. These hits to benefits will overwhelm some families who greatly depend on these funds, particularly because 83 percent of SNAP household have annual income below the poverty line.

Janet Murgria, president and CEO of NCLR, stated that the cuts were heavy-handed and "only serves to cuff off access to healthy food for our families... lawmakers must avoid senseless cuts to SNAP and pass a responsible long-term budget."

Feeding America indicated, "Latino households are more than twice as likely to be food insecure as white, non-Hispanic households. Counties with majority Latino populations are disproportionately represented among the top 10 percent of counties with the highest rates of food insecurity."