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Fixing what ails food stamps: Jennifer StefanoPenn LiveOh, and here's the beauty of the food stamp program. It used to be, when FDR started the program – that people could use the stamps to get the basics – bread, rice, milk. Now, it's a debit card – administered by big …

Fixing what ails food stamps: Jennifer StefanoPatriot-NewsOh, and here's the beauty of the food stamp program. It used to be, when FDR started the program – that people could use the stamps to get the basics – bread, rice, milk. Now, it's a debit card – administered by big Wall …

Crosscut Farmers market food stamps: More beet for your buckCrosscutNow, with new city-provided matching funds for food stamps (EBT) at farmers' markets, she doesn't have to. Last Wednesday, the city officially launched Fresh Bucks, a fund that matches food stamp benefits used to purchase fresh food at Seattle farmers' … More: …

Food stampsSt. George Daily SpectrumThe decision by House Republicans not to support the renewal of the Farm Bill provided some shocking points of argument, chief among them a statement by Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, who said he and his colleagues dropped the food stamp program … More: continued here

Just as the political debate over food stamps comes to a boil, the number of recipients has actually fallen. More: continued here

Stamps Turn Into Do-Good Ad MediumMediaPost CommunicationsSure, online bill paying and e-cards may be the more accepted and economical way to go, but most of us still use stamps for some tasks. And lately, stamps have become canvases to promote various causes, like finding missing children in Canada and … …

ThinkProgress House GOP's Attempt to Gut Food Stamps Would Gut Economy, TooDailyFinanceFood stamps Getty Images First the good news: a farm bill passed the House of Representatives on Thursday, suggesting that — two years after the last farm bill expired — a replacement may be nigh. On the bright side, …

Daily Beast The Phony Food-Stamp ScareDaily BeastThere are a few things you should know about the politics of food stamps—and that no House GOP member will tell you. First, the only time food-stamp usage fell in recent memory was under a Democrat. Second, food stamps, by design, rose massively …For …

Here's the True Story Of What Food Stamps Do For AmericaPolicyMicBoth aspects of the historically bipartisan bill have little to no affect on me— I'm not a farmer nor am I from anywhere remotely rural, and I'm not, nor ever have been, on food stamps. But after some research and …

FACT CHECK: Farm Bill Doesn't End Food StampsKSTP.comMoney for food stamps, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, has for decades been linked to farm programs in what is known as the farm bill. That union has brought urban Democratic support for the rural farm programs, which … More: …