PennLive.com Food-stamp asset test takes affect TuesdayTowanda Daily ReviewBy Robert Swift (Harrisburg Bureau Chief) HARRISBURG – A controversial state plan to examine the financial assets of hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians to determine if they can remain eligible for food stamps goes into effect Tuesday.Pennsylvania food stamp program will trap people in poverty, critics sayPennLive.comFood…
FOX6Now.com Milwaukee Prisoners, fugitives got food stamps, audit saysDubuque Telegraph HeraldHundreds of Wisconsin prisoners, fugitives and parole violators have been illegally collecting food stamp benefits, costing the state hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to a state audit released Friday. As part of a broader examination of the …Felons, prisoners get food stampsHerald Times ReporterAudit:…
PennLive.com Pennsylvania food stamp program will trap people in poverty, critics sayPennLive.comTom Corbett's administration says it wants to restrict food stamps to those who truly need help. Critics say the administration's changes to the food stamp program will trap people in poverty. JAN MURPHY, The Patriot-News"The present budget proposal …Food stamp asset test will begin…
The Saginaw News – MLive.com Stories, songs and stamps evoke memories of Saginaw poet Theodore RoethkeThe Saginaw News – MLive.com“She's 87 years old and she was on her hands and knees, scrubbing the kitchen floor for today's Roethke Forever Stamp Day,” Annie Ransford, president of the Friends of Theodore Roethke Foundation, said of the woman…
Deseret News A food stamp paradox: Starving isn't the issue — it's access to nutritious foodsDeseret NewsBy Eric Schulzke, Deseret News Stewart Kern, middle, and Amy Smith, right, wait to apply for the Federal food stamps program at the Cooperative Feeding Program on February 10, 2011, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Using surveys, the USDA sketches…
My Year on Food StampsHuffington Post (blog)We needed food stamps. It was April then, and my husband of 12 years had just left me for another woman. Angela and I had moved to Maine to be closer to my parents. There were days when I wouldn't have bothered getting out of bed if not for…
Food stamp challenge sets bar at $23 for weekMarion StarThe average Ohio food stamp recipient gets $4.60 per day to spend on food, said Colleen Stoker, spokeswoman for the agency. The word "supplemental" is in the formal name of the food stamp program (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), …and more » More: continued here
Food stamp asset test will begin on TuesdayPhiladelphia InquirerBy Mark Scolforo Associated Press HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania Public Welfare Department will start asking food-stamp recipients next week to prove they do not have significant personal assets in order to qualify for benefits.New asset test for food stamps set to beginPocono RecordProof for Food Stamps Set…
FOX6Now.com Milwaukee Audit: Prisoners get state food stampsAppleton Post CrescentAP MADISON — Hundreds of Wisconsin prisoners, fugitives and parole violators have been illegally collecting food stamp benefits, costing the state hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to a state audit released Friday.Felons, prisoners get food stampsHerald Times Reporterall 58 news articles » More: continued here
Letters: Romney the rubber stampLongview Daily NewsOur tax money should not go to those people who are too lazy, old, crippled and drug-addicted or to minorities and women who want equal rights, health care, birth control, food stamps or welfare. We should do what our party wants and eliminate public …and more » More: continued here