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Follow That Chef SNAP Challenge: A Free Farmers' Market Tour, Cooking Demo and Panel Discussion

Monique Ruffin | Posted 04.22.2013 | Los Angeles
Read More: Food Justice, Cooking How-To, Local Food, Farmers Markets, Food Stamp, Santa Monica, Fresh Food, Andy Fisher, Los Angeles, LA Events, Los Angeles News
Monique Ruffin

Hundreds of thousands of families in the Los Angeles area are entitled to SNAP benefits but are not accessing them. If your family might be one of them, this event will answer your questions and lead you to the services available.

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GOP Food Stamp Measure Meets Demise

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 08.19.2012 | Politics
Read More: Food Stamp Bill, Food Stamp, Farm Bill, Jeff Sessions, Video, Food Stamps, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday began plowing through 73 amendments to a $500 billion bill that will set farm policy and fund the food stamp ...

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Paul Smacked Down By Senate On Drastic Cut

Posted 06.13.2012 | Politics
Read More: Food Stamp Cuts, Video, Rand Paul, Food Stamps, Food Stamps Cuts, Food Stamp, Paul Amendment, Paul, Politics News

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate has turned back an effort by Kentucky Republican Rand Paul to drastically cut food stamp spending and replace the food a...

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Government Taking Action Against Fraud

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 07.24.2012 | Politics
Read More: Video, Food Stamps Online, Food Stamps, Food Stamp Fraud, Food Stamp, Usda, Agriculture Department, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Food stamp recipients are ripping off the government for millions of dollars by illegally selling their benefit cards for cash &nda...

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Food Stamp Cuts Advance

Posted 04.18.2012 | Politics
Read More: Gouse Gop Budget, Food Stamp Cuts, Congress, Video, Food Stamps, House GOP, Snap Cuts, Food Stamp, Snap, Politics News

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...

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GOP Eyes Food Stamp Cuts To Avoid Big Military Cutback

Posted 04.18.2012 | Politics
Read More: Food Stamp Cuts, Video, Food Stamps, House GOP, Budget Cuts, Food Stamp, Child Tax Credit, Supercommittee, Politics News

By ANDREW TAYLOR, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- Republicans controlling the House are eying big cuts to food stamps as they piece together leg...

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Family Dead In Food Stamp Shooting Had Long Struggled

AP | By PAUL J. WEBER | Posted 12.10.2011 | Crime
Read More: Welfare, Welfare Shooting, Poverty, Shooting, Food Stamps, Laredo Crime, Food Stamp, Food Stamp Shooting, Ramie Grimmer, Dale Grimmer, Texas, Murder, Video, Rachelle Grimmer, Texas Crime, Timothy Grimmer, Laredo, Crime News

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...

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Child Hunger Finding Its Place in the National Conversation?

Billy Shore | Posted 01.31.2012 | Impact
Read More: US Child Hunger, Child Hunger, Food Stamp, Food Insecurity, Hunger in Amierca, SNAP Funds, Food Stamps and SNAP Funds, America Hunger, Impact News
Billy Shore

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.

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More People Are Using Food Stamps Than Ever Before

Posted 10.03.2011 | Home
Read More: Food Stamp, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, USDA Food Stamps, Usda, Food Stamps, Food Stamp Statistics, Snap, Home News

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...

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Woe to You, Legislators!

Jim Wallis | Posted 06.14.2011 | Politics
Read More: Record Profits, Profligacy, President Obama, Fiscal Conservatives, International, Children, Taxes, Dignity, Welfare Payments, Teachings of Jesus, Prophet Isaiah, Political Clout, Food Stamp, Hypocrites, Deficit Reduction, Federal Budget, Washington Post, America, Ayn Rand, Republican, Government, Conservative, Rand, Isaiah 1, Housing, Congressman Paul Ryan, Paul Ryan, Campaign Contributions, Subsidies, Budget Cuts, Money, Politics, Education, Community, Medicaid, Choice, Corporations, International Assistance, Faith Community, Vulnerable Members, Medicare, Republicans, Military Spending, Conservatives, Religious Community, Michael Gerson, Budget Proposal, Politics News
Jim Wallis

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.

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Givers Versus Takers: What's Driving Resistance to Obamacare

Liz Peek | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Unemployment, Barack Obama, Obamacare, Subsidized Housing, Economy, Social Security, Food Stamp, Medicaid, Liz Peek, New York News
Liz Peek

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.

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