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Kansas City Star Kansas Will Kick 20000 People Off Of Food StampsThinkProgressKansas plans to throw more than a fifth of its nearly 90,000 unemployed residents off of the food stamp rolls by reinstating federal work requirements for the program that are normally waived during times of unusually high unemployment. The …

SNAP Treason: House Republicans Take Aim at Food StampsTruth-OutFood Stamps. (Photo: U.S. Department of Agriculture / Flickr)In the 2007 film The Counterfeiters, a group of Jewish concentration camp prisoners are forced to produce fake currency as a means to destabilize the English and U.S. economies. While the … More: continued …

Providence Eyewitness News Stores sanctioned for food stamp violationsProvidence Eyewitness NewsPROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – Fewer than two percent of all certified food stamp retailers in Rhode Island were disqualified by from accepting EBT cards in 2012, but a reform advocate says that figure is just the tip of the iceberg …

Conaway fields questions on Syria, food stamps, immigration, health care at …San Angelo Standard-TimesSAN ANGELO, Texas — San Angeloans had a chance to weigh in on national and international issues, such as the situation in Syria, at Rep. Mike Conaway's town hall meeting Thursday morning. “There are no silver bullets. …

Media Matters for America (blog) Will Fox Criticize Farm Subsidy Waste The Way It Attacks Food Stamps?Media Matters for America (blog)A new inspector general report documenting overpayments in farm subsidies challenges Fox News' reporting on the farm bill, which has focused on demagogouing food stamps and their recipients. Fox has …

The wrong Republican to talk about food stampsMSNBC (blog)Before Congress broke for its August recess, House Republicans were still refusing to work on a bipartisan farm bill, insisting on punitive efforts that made it vastly more difficult for struggling Americans to eat. A month later, the legislation is …and more » …

Food stamps are more than a supplementIndianapolis StarI read with interest Dr. David Blank's letter about food stamp recipients, particularly his assertion that the program is meant to supplement food supply, not to be used as the only source of food. My husband and I have used food stamps for …

New York Times On the Edge of Poverty, at the Center of a Debate on Food StampsNew York TimesDYERSBURG, Tenn. — As a self-described “true Southern man” — and reluctant recipient of food stamps— Dustin Rigsby, a struggling mechanic, hunts deer, doves and squirrels to help feed his family. He …

Kansas City Star Change in Kansas food stamp rules could cut off 20000 recipientsKansas City StarThe Kansas Department for Children and Families said that beginning Oct. 1, an estimated 20,000 unemployed Kansas residents who receive food stamps will be forced to work at least 20 hours a week to keep …

The Weekly Standard (blog) House Republicans Expected to Reform Food Stamps ProgramThe Weekly Standard (blog)The federal government paid more than $74.6 billion last year to provide 46.6 millions Americans with food stamps. This is an astonishing increase, even for this era of rapidly rising federal spending. Four years earlier the …