WASHINGTON — Food stamp recipients are ripping off the government for millions of dollars by illegally selling their benefit cards for cash &nda...
Posted 04.18.2012
By Emily Stephenson A U.S. congressional panel approved about $33 billion in cuts over 10 years from food assistance programs in a partisan vot...
Posted 04.18.2012
By ANDREW TAYLOR, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- Republicans controlling the House are eying big cuts to food stamps as they piece together leg...
AP | By PAUL J. WEBER | Posted 12.10.2011
LAREDO, Texas -- In one of the poorest counties in the U.S., neighbors still pitied Rachelle Grimmer and her children. Grimmer would walk down the hig...
Billy Shore | Posted 01.31.2012
With more than one in five American children living in poverty, and almost half of the record level SNAP food stamp recipients being kids, childhood hunger is finally being discovered by mainstream media.
Posted 10.03.2011
The number of people using food stamps hit an all-time high in May 2011. According to the USDA, 45,753,078 Americans and 21,581,234 households use Sup...
Jim Wallis | Posted 06.14.2011
The president's fiscal message this week was on point, and will have to be repeated over and over again in the months ahead against all the pressures to compromise.
Liz Peek | Posted 05.25.2011
The United States is nearing, or has reached, a tipping point, where there are more people receiving assistance from the government than there are contributing to it.
AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 05.24.2012