Monday, June 18, 2012

Food stamps

  • By JIM ABRAMS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The 1,000-page farm bill being debated in the Senate is somewhat of a misnomer.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • In 2011, a record 46 million people - or 1 in 7 Americans -- participated in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), better known as Food Stamps.
  • (Yahoo Finance)
  • The version of the farm bill that emerged from the Senate Agriculture Committee contains $4.5 billion in cuts to the food stamps program over 10 years.
  • (New York Times)
  • They would eat more, but to reach a grocery store with suitable salad stuff, she can only afford to cover a friends gas money or pay bus fare once a month when her food stamps come in. Salad stuff doesnt last long, she said.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • WASHINGTON — The 1,000-page farm bill being debated in the Senate is somewhat of a misnomer. Four of every five dollars in it — roughly $80 billion a year — goes for grocery bills for one of every seven Americans through food stamps.
  • (Pasadena Star-News)
  • For Republicans, nothing says government waste quite like a lottery winner on food stamps. Democrats have often dismissed such complaints as political scapegoating. Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.
  • (Washington Post)
  • Fifty percent of the people on food stamps are on food stamps because theyre too lazy to do anything else.
  • (Aiken Standard)
  • LOS ANGELES, June 12 (Reuters) - A new report from a California watchdog group is calling for the U.S.
  • (Reuters)
  • While Congress is fussing over the farm bill, Michele Simons new report, Food Stamps: Follow the Money, identifies the businesses that most stand to gain from the $72 billion spent last year on SNAP.
  • (Atlantic Online)

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