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Mayor Cory Booker Shines the Light

Monique Ruffin | Posted 02.10.2013 | Home
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Monique Ruffin

The more we openly speak about the high cost of unhealthy food and how it particularly effects the poor, the more likely it is that our government, and each one of us individually, will do something about it.

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My Top 10 Ingredients for a Healthy SNAP Diet

Alli Sosna | Posted 02.04.2013 | Home
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Alli Sosna

If more people would realize how challenging it is to live healthfully off of food stamps that would be the beginning of a real dialogue in America about food costs, hunger and how to eat healthfully on a limited budget.

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'It Is Nowhere Near Enough': Advice For Cory Booker's Food Stamp Challenge

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.06.2012 | Politics
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Newark mayor Cory Booker is living on food stamps this week, spending less than $5 a day on his meals. Some critics have suggested that a week isn't e...

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SNAP Hunger Challenge: Not Really A Poor Grad Student After All

Greg Damhorst | Posted 11.21.2012 | Religion
Read More: Interfaith Cooperation, SNAP Challenge, Hunger, Interfaith Service, Occupy Faith, Poverty, Interfaith, Religion News
Greg Damhorst

The same day that I begin a week of eating on a budget of $5 per day -- the equivalent of living off the average food stamp benefit in Illinois -- a stipend is deposited in my bank account. On any other week, this could afford me more than 10 times the weekly SNAP allowance.

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