Further attempts at fiscal stringency may hack away at other support programmes, including food stamps and Medicaid, a health-care entitlement for the poor.

在财政缺乏时候的这些尝试也许需要取消一些财政支持项目，包括食品救济券计划以及医疗补助计划（针对贫困人士的健康补贴）。

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Ms Eschmann administers the federal programmes supposed to help, including food stamps, Medicaid and cash assistance.

ECONOMIST: Poverty looms for the long-term unemployed

Mr Romney has embraced the budget of Paul Ryan, the Republican chairman of the Budget Committee in the House of Representatives, which promises steep cuts in federal entitlements, including food stamps and Medicaid, and the replacement of traditional Medicare for the old with cheaper vouchers.

ECONOMIST: The size of the state

Entitlement reforms should be based on extending the enormously successful, bipartisan, 1996 AFDC block grant reforms to all federal, means tested, welfare programs, including Medicaid and food stamps.

FORBES: For The Republicans There's An Opportunity At The Fiscal Cliff