Send by Big Government

An average of 43.3 million people, more than an eighth of the population, will get food stamps each month in the year that began Oct. 1, according to White [...]

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Without a job since the recession began, Patterson started shopping 20 minutes before midnight - the time $435 in food stamps kicked in to help feed her six [...]

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Here and at grocery stores across the country, the chimes come just after food stamps and other monthly government benefits drop into the accounts of [...]

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The Food Stamp program, known today as SNAP or EBT, has been helping families reach goals to access healthy food since its original development in 1939, [...]

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The experts are also saying that the Government will have to do some changes in the laws regarding the food-stamp program. According to the health officials [...]

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That's the message New York City and state officials are sending by proposing to the US Department of Agriculture that food stamps in New York City be [...]

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Nancy Pelosi says that food stamps and unemployment insurance will grow the US economy and lift it from the recession that Barack Obama has helped to worsen [...]

Send by Forbes (blog)

For starters, New York City would not be telling food stamp recipients that they are prohibited from enjoying a Coke and a smile. Rather, the city would be [...]

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Gingrich, who is widely considered to be eyeing a potential presidential bid for 2012, unveiled the “food stamps” strategy in a memo earlier this week. [...]

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Now, New York City wants to mandate that people obey, if they are using food stamps to pay. "I don't think it's a good idea," said Rei Rodney, from Albany. [...]

Send by Baltimore Sun (blog)

The thinking behind the concept, proposed by New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Governor David A. Patterson, is that since food stamps are given out by [...]

Send by Welshman007

In the aftermath of the Democrats' special session of Congress, during the August recess, to cut food stamps from those citizens who suffer in the recession in order to approve a bailout of public school teachers , the latest major poll of likely voters shows that Barack Obama has fallen to a -22 in net approval--his lowest yet. [...]

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Now that none of us has a job any longer, we?re living on food stamps and living in government housing. That?s not actually so bad because government cheese goes well with depression, and the rats tend to only come out at night, giving the cockroaches a break from stealing your precious, precious food crumbs. [...]

Send by The Atlantic

Every year, tens of millions of federal dollars are spent on sweetened beverages in New York City through the food stamp program -- far more than is spent [...]

Send by Wall Street Journal (blog)

For his next sure-to-be-debated move, the mayor has joined the governor of New York, David Paterson, in a request that the USDA's food stamp program [...]

Send by Christian Broadcasting Network

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is urging Republicans to sell the GOP as "the party of paychecks" and label Democrats as "the party of food stamps. [...]

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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has sought federal permission to bar New York City's 1.7 million recipients of food stamps from using them to buy soda [...]

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Job cuts estimated to increase Google Images Related articles Second quarter growth slows down to 2.4% Pennsylvania Turnpike increasing toll fees Credit checks becoming popular with employers Senate approves cut in food stamp program while ? [...]

Send by Daily Comet (blog)

HOUMA ? If you think you might need food-stamp benefits in an emergency situation like the tropical depression expected to head toward Louisiana this week, [...]

Send by Betterfly2

The Food Stamp Program receives very high marks in most measures of program effectiveness and efficiency. It provides nutrition assistance to tens of millions of low-income Americans every month, easing hardship and boosting economic activity in communities across the country. [...]

Send by Gather.com

A record high 41 million Americans are relying on food stamps to make it from one paycheck to the next, just to provide the very basics for their families. [...]

Send by tamarawilhite

Just as Michelle Obama returns from her much-criticized luxury vacation to Spain, which cost the U.S. taxpayers over$400,000, her husband cut $11.9 billion from the Food Stamp program, designed to help the poorest Americans. [...]

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What is so hypocritical is the fact that Obama made the cut in the Food Stamps program, while he expects the taxpayers to pick up the bill for the First [...]

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So when New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg today proposed banning the use of food stamps to buy soda and other sugary drinks, she was a little put off. [...]

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Think of this as food stamps for broadband, or in Tate's words, "broadband stamps." The idea is to give low-income Americans a broadband voucher that they [...]