All posts tagged "Food Stamps"
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Another Round Of Food Stamp Cuts In States
Source: Jake Grovum / Pew / Stateline / USA Today A fresh round of food stamp cuts at the state level are underway, on top of...
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Hunger Crisis: Charities Are Strained As Nearly 1 In 5 New Yorkers Depend On Aid For Food
Source: Barry Paddock and Ginger Adams Otis / New York Daily News It’s a quiet crisis. In a city of plenty, a staggering number of...
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David Brunori: Where Is The Outrage Over Corporate Welfare?
Source: David Brunori / Forbes I recently read the February 24 Good Jobs First report, “Subsidizing the Corporate One Percent,” by Philip Mattera, a respected thought leader...
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MEDIAITE: Jon Stewart Trashes Fox News And Eric Bolling For Food Stamp Hypocrisy
Source: Noah Rothman / Mediaite Jon Stewart hit Fox for creating the narrative that the poor are “just sh**ty people and those food stamps are...
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Dick Cheney: Obama Would Rather Spend Money On Food Stamps Than A Strong Military
Source: Paige Lavender / The Huffington Post Former Vice President Dick Cheney (R) took a hit at President Barack Obama on Monday, saying he favors food stamps...
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Why Soldiers Are Increasingly Relying On Food Stamps
Source: Aimee Picchi / CBS News The recent surge in food-stamp spending has prompted some critics to worry that the $76 billion program is creating an...
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Obama Signing Farm Bill That Trims Food Stamps
Source: AP / ABC News President Barack Obama is carrying out a presidential duty that he hasn’t had a lot of opportunity to perform recently:...
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Farm Bill Deal Would Cut Food Stamps By 1 Percent
Source: Mary Clare Jalonick / ABC News Farm-state lawmakers are pushing for final passage of the massive, five-year farm bill as it heads to the House...
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William Spriggs: Cognitive Dissonance
By William Spriggs Chief Economist to the AFL-CIO The U.S. Department of Treasury has announced that the deficit for 2013 was $680 billion (which is...
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Food Stamp Cuts Starting Friday Will Leave 47 Million Families Hungrier
Source: Jeff Mays / NewsOne.com When the Great Recession hit, food stamps were one of the ways the federal government tried to help struggling families keep their...
