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Bloomberg How Republicans Justify Cutting Food Stamps While Boosting Farm SubsidiesBloombergRepublicans have been pressing to roll back the dramatic expansion of food stamps that has taken place over the last five years — 46 million people are now on the program, up from 26 million in 2007, and the average …

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Bloomberg (blog) Reagan's Revolution Devolves Into a Food-Stamp SkirmishBloomberg (blog)Last week, Republicans in the House of Representatives delivered on their threat to reduce funding for food stamps. In a narrow 217-210 vote — every Democrat voted against the measure, as did 15 Republicans — the House moved to cut $39 …

The Problem Is Obesity Not Hunger (Thoughts On The Food Stamps Debate)ForbesThroughout history, politicians have fabricated crises to justify their own solution to the crisis they themselves dreamed up. History is strewn with non-existent crises – the population bomb, global cooling, resource depletion, freon destroying the … More: continued here

There's a fairly basic question at the center of the food-stamp debate in Congress: Why has the program grown so rapidly? More: continued here

States move ahead with food stamp cutsUSA TODAYBut in six states—Delaware, Kansas, New Hampshire, Utah, Vermont and Wyoming—similar reductions are already in place, or soon will be. Two more states will join them once their waivers expire, potentially taking away food stamps from tens of …Deep Cuts in Food Stamp …

William H. Gross Stamp Gallery at National Postal MuseumNew York TimesWASHINGTON — It could easily be a glorious Pharaonic tomb, stocked with all the sustenance a philatelist might require for the afterlife. The William H. Gross Stamp Gallery, which opened on Sunday here at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum, … More: …

Half the households in this NY congressional district rely on food stampsWashington Post (blog)There are 239,061 households in the 15 square miles that make up Rep. Jose Serrano's (D-N.Y.) congressional district. Nearly half, 119,298, participated in the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program last year. Forty-one percent of Serrano's … More: continued here

There's a fairly basic question at the center of the food-stamp debate in Congress: Why has the program grown so rapidly? More: continued here

News Flash! Food Stamps Need ReformNational Review Online (blog)Robert Rector. In a recent NRO article, Henry Olsen charges that the Heritage Foundation is leading a “conservative war on food stamps” that will take “food from the mouths of the genuinely hungry.” He declares this the “most baffling political move of …