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DesMoinesRegister.com Miller-Meeks: False claim about Mountain Dew and food stamps wasn't politicalDesMoinesRegister.comMiller-Meeks, who is the department's director, made the claim about food stamps in October at a World Food Prize conference in Des Moines, according to a Lee Newspapers story this week. “The No. 1 food item bought with food …

abc11.com USDA threatens to pull funding over food stamps problemsWRAL.comRaleigh, N.C. — The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services failed to make promised changes to fix problems with its food stamps program, according to federal regulators. The state and federal government share the administrative costs …USDA tells DHHS food …

New Milford Photographer's Stamp Series Carefully ProducedLitchfield County TimesThe New Milford resident photographed the gingerbread houses that appear on the recently released 2013 holiday stamps. The four-stamp pane of Forever® stamps is her fifth holiday stamp series and, she said, her 13th postal release. “It is a great honor … …

Doctors say cutting food stamps could backfireSalt Lake TribuneWashington • Doctors are warning that if Congress cuts food stamps, the federal government could be socked with bigger health bills. Maybe not immediately, they say, but over time if the poor wind up in doctors' offices or hospitals as a result. …

Federal administrators say that, despite assurances, the state has failed to fix problems administering its food stamps program. More: continued here

Federal administrators say that despite assurances, the state failed to fix problems administering the food stamps program. More: continued here

Farm bill deal could cut food stamps by $9BHerald and NewsWASHINGTON — Negotiations are almost complete on a long-overdue farm bill that will set new spending levels for the federal food stamp program and add yet another wrinkle to the national debate over income inequality as Congress mulls how to …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Doctors are warning that if Congress cuts food stamps, the federal government could be socked with bigger health bills. Maybe not immediately, they say, but over time if the poor wind up in doctors' offices or hospitals as a result. More: continued here

Doctors Say Cutting Food Stamps Could BackfireABC NewsFood stamps, known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, feed 1 in 7 Americans and cost almost $80 billion a year, twice what it cost five years ago. Conservatives say the program spiraled out of control as the economy struggled …and …

WASHINGTON — Doctors are warning that if Congress cuts food stamps, the federal government could be socked with bigger health bills. Maybe not immediately, they say, but over time if the poor wind up in doctors' offices or hospitals as a result. More: continued here