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New York Daily News Health Law Brings Growth in Food Stamps in Some StatesABC NewsPresident Barack Obama's health care law has had a surprising side effect: In some states, it appears to be enticing more Americans to apply for food stamps, even as the economy improves. New, streamlined application systems …

TechCrunch Backed By $3.5 Million, SnowShoe Debuts Clever, Plastic “Stamps” That Unlock …TechCrunchA startup called SnowShoe has developed technology that does just this – it has created clever, plastic “stamps” that interact with the touch sensors on mobile phones by way of the web browser. Today, the company is announcing …

City Journal The Food Stamp PirouetteCity JournalSome might say spending $80 billion to expand food stamp enrollment and leave the official poverty rate untouched was the whole idea: if the program dramatically reduced measured poverty and food insecurity, people might think that these problems are … More: continued here

Shape Magazine What Gwyneth Paltrow's Food Stamps Failure Taught UsShape MagazineThe social media challenge tasks participants to live off $29 a week to experience what it's like for a family to be entirely reliant on the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (better known as food stamps). Paltrow, along with Mario …

The Columbian Produce shares made available to people who use food stampsThe ColumbianPlenty of farmers markets accept food stamps through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and they have for years. But it's less common for farms to offer the same option for CSA shares, which allow customers to buy …

PennLive.com Food stamp assets test to be eliminated, as of MondayPennLive.comStarting Monday, the assets test that determined eligibility for food stamps will go away. The state Department of Human Services announced this policy change on Tuesday as a way to save $3.5 million annually by easing administrative burdens and costs …

The Federalist How People (Including Gwyneth Paltrow) Get Food Stamps WrongThe FederalistBefore Gwyneth Paltrow decided to use the supposed equivalent of her food stamp allotment to buy guacamole ingredients, we heard a mother who had formerly taken Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits lament in the Washington …Gwyneth Paltrow bought on …

Pa. to eliminate asset test for food stampsPhilly.comPennsylvania will eliminate the asset test for food stamps as of Monday, a spokeswoman for the Department of Human Services announced Thursday evening. The move reverses a controversial initiative of former Gov. Tom Corbett, who saw the test as a way …Wolf ends Pa. …

The Patriot Ledger Granite City Stamp Club marks 82nd year with Weymouth gatheringsThe Patriot LedgerThe Granite City Stamp Club was formed in 1933 in Quincy and continues to draw devoted stamp lovers to its twice-a-month meetings at the Tufts Public Library in Weymouth. "Each stamp is a work of art …

Deseret News Time to separate food stamps from farm bills — it's a move that has many benefitsDeseret NewsThe second report, a brief for the Heritage Foundation written by Daren Bakst, urges Congress to separate the food stamps program from the farm bill and place it under the Department of …