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Washington Post Obama Signs Farm Bill That Trims Food StampsABC NewsPresident Barack Obama on Friday signed into law an agriculture spending bill that will spread benefits to farmers in every region of the country, while trimming the food stamp program that inspired a two-year battle over the legislation. As he …

Obama signing into law wide-ranging farm bill that trim food stamps aiding 1 …U.S. News & World ReportThe bill cuts food stamps by $800 million a year, or around 1 percent, one-fifth of the cut approved last fall by the Republican-led House. Conservatives remain unhappy with the bill and its …

Black Heritage Series stamp collection on display at Hartsville MuseumSCNowKathy Dunlap, director of the Hartsville Museum, said the museum has continued to add stamps to the Black Heritage Series as issued each year. “We have all of the stamps in the series except two,” she said. The museum's collection is …

Christian Science Monitor Obama Signing Farm Bill That Trims Food StampsABC NewsThe bill cuts food stamps by $800 million a year, or around 1 percent, one-fifth of the cut approved last fall by the Republican-led House. Conservatives remain unhappy with the bill and its subsidies for groups ranging from sheep …

Neighbors accused of selling food stamps for cashKIMA CBS 29It involved an informant they say exchanged food stamps for cash. Investigators obtained a search warrant for the store's computer records and surveillance footage. In Washington state, food stamp recipients use EBT Quest cards to buy food. Cards can … More: …

Obama In Michigan To Sign Farm Bill That Trims Food StampsCBS LocalThe bill cuts food stamps by $800 million a year, or around 1 percent, one-fifth of the cut approved last fall by the Republican-led House. Conservatives remain unhappy with the bill and its subsidies for groups ranging from sheep …

Obama signing farm bill trimming food stampsTurn to 10But the bulk of its cost is for the food stamp program that aids 1 in 7 Americans. A partisan dispute over food stamp spending held up the legislation for two years. The compromise bill cuts food stamps by $800 million a …

Would you like a short-term loan with your stamps?Belleville News DemocratThat's the idea proposed in a new Office of Inspector General report and quickly championed by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat. The inspector general for the U.S. Postal Service proposed that the nation's infrastructure of post …Would you …

Victimizing food stamp recipientsSocialist Worker OnlineA NEW round of class warfare has emerged under the rhetoric of "food stamp fraud," as Congress and pundits in the media are labeling it. It is similar to the portrayal conveyed under the Reagan Administration in the 1980s of the "welfare queen"–the … More: …

Utahns won't see further cuts in food stampsSalt Lake TribuneThe farm bill passed by Congress earlier this week trims $8.5 billion over the next decade in food-stamp benefits, but the cuts likely will not impact low-income Utahns. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that administers food stamps… More: continued here