Source: Mary Clare Jalonick / AP / ABC News The House Agriculture Committee is set to consider small cuts to the $80 billion-a-year food stamp program in an effort to appease conservatives who say the food aid has become too expensive. The cuts are part of a massive five-year farm bill that costs almost $100 billion [...]
Source: Sarah Parnass / ABC News Social media-savvy Mayor Cory Booker posted a photo of a crumpled receipt Monday morning to Facebook and Twitter. The Newark, N.J., mayor wasn’t filing expenses; he was showing supporters what he’ll be eating for the next week as he takes on the food stamp challenge. Starting today and going until Dec. 12, [...]
Source: Catalina Camia / USA Today Newark Mayor Cory Booker is planning to live off food stamps for a week after challenging a follower on Twitter. Booker, a New Jersey Democrat considered one of his party’s rising stars, is a prolific user of the micro-blogging site. On Sunday, the mayor got into a lengthy exchange [...]
Source: Bonnie Kavoussi / The Huffington Post A record 46.7 million Americans — or roughly one in five adults – used food stamps in June, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently reported. Food stamp use has spiked 51 percent since October 2008, when the economy was in free fall. The number of Americans now using food stamps is roughly [...]
Source: Tami Luhby / CNN Money NEW YORK – More than one in seven Americans are on food stamps, but the federal government wants even more people to sign up for the safety net program. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been running radio ads for the past four months encouraging those eligible to enroll. [...]
Source: Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post WASHINGTON — The Senate overwhelmingly rejected a bid to preserve some $4.5 billion in food stamps funding, as part of the massive farm bill, on Tuesday. The amendment to keep that spending in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, offered by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), failed 33 to 66. Sixty [...]
Guess who’s on the bubble for this week’s The Biggest Damn Lie? Newt “Chuckie” Gingrich … and here is why [VIDEO CLIP.] MR. NEWT GINGRICH: The fact is that more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history. [LOUD CHEERING, APPLAUSE.] [END OF VIDEO.] According to factcheck.org, [...]
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