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11 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Buy With Food Stamps
Food stamps have become a major facet of the American system. And as the number of welfare recipients increases, so does the number of items that can be purchased with a food stamp Electronic
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How Big Banks Are Cashing In On Food Stamps
Many benefit programs have gone high tech with debit cards and J.P. Morgan Chase and others are making a pretty penny charging users fees. What is there to be done
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US Congress to cut food stamps by $9 billion
Lawmakers in both chambers of US Congress have reportedly reached a deal to cut almost $9 billion from the food stamp program on which nearly 47 million Americans rely to afford food. The cuts to
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Why are 47 million Americans on food stamps? It’s the recession — mostly.
There's a fairly basic question at the core of the current food-stamp debate in Congress. Why has the program grown so rapidly over the past few years — to the point where 47 million
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Households On Foodstamps Rise To New Record High: More Americans Live In Poverty Than The Population Of Spain
There was much discussion of Friday's "disappointing" non-farm payrolls goal-seeked, seasonally adjusted, X-13-ARIMA conceived jobs "number." The conclusion was that it showed an economy which one year after the start of QEternity was growing
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Food Stamps May Be Split From Farm Bill In House
Republicans are making more noise about dropping food stamps from farm legislation that previously failed to pass the House of Representatives because of disagreement over cuts in nutrition assistance
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