Wall Street Journal Is it time for food stamps to come out of the farm bill?Washington PostAs you can see, the farm bill isn't purely a “farm” bill. About 80 percent of the bill actually goes toward food stamps for the poor and other nutritional programs — a long-standing arrangement that explains why the farm…
House Republicans split farm bill, dropping section related to food stampsal.com (blog)GOP leaders were still counting how many votes they could muster for the new measure, which drops the politically sensitive food stamp portion of the bill, when they released the legislation late Wednesday. The White House swiftly issued a veto threat … More: continued…
Republicans drop food stamps from farm billYahoo! News2 Democrat in the House, called it a "bill to nowhere" since the Democratic Senate is likely to add the food stamp money back in. The Democratic-led Senate, which overwhelmingly passed a farm bill with only a half-percent cut to food stamps, would be … More: continued here
House passes scaled-down farm bill without food stampsSalt Lake TribuneWASHINGTON – The House has passed a scaled-down version of a massive farm bill, putting off a fight over food stamp spending and giving Republican leaders a victory after a decisive defeat on the larger bill last month. The GOP leaders scrambled to get … More: continued…
Republicans drop food stamps from farm billBoston.comWASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leaders bruised by the defeat of a massive farm bill last month are working to quickly revive the measure with a vote on a pared-down version that avoids an immediate showdown on food stamp cuts. Just hours … More: continued here
Republicans Drop Food Stamps From Farm BillNPRWASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leaders bruised by the defeat of a massive farm bill last month are working to quickly revive the measure with a vote on a pared-down version that avoids an immediate showdown on food stamp cuts. Just hours … More: continued here
Farm Bill Without Food Stamps Should Please Liberals: Frank Lucas (UPDATE)Huffington Post"If you're a true liberal and you want to protect the [food stamps] program from any reform whatsoever, I suppose you'd be smiling," Lucas, the Republican chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, told HuffPost on Thursday morning ahead of the vote. More: continued here
Top state for food stamps Mississippi: 22 percent of residents rely on welfareChristianTodayThe Department of Agriculture revealed that 22 percent of residents in Mississippi rely on food stamps. As of April this year, the figure has rised 2.8 percent , with more than 15 percent of the US population relying on benefits. This means that…
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As numbers increase, a battle over food stampsDesMoinesRegister.comHarrison is one of the more than 400,000 Iowans on food stamps, today known as food assistance, delivered via a debit-card-like system. The federal program distributes close to $75 billion to more than 46 million Americans, half of whom are children. More: continued here