East Elgin claws Stamps – St. Thomas Times-Journal

Indiana Public Media Why don't they know where food stamps $$$ go?The Courier-ExpressThat lobbying has resulted in taxpayers — us — subsidizing food purchases that doom many of the 47 million food stamp recipients to unhealthy lives, lingering illnesses and premature deaths, while taxpayers are forced to pick up the soaring medical …Decreasing benefits for…

New York Daily News Huge Rise in Number of Manhattanites on Food…DNAinfoThe number of New York state residents on food stamps jumped 11 percent to three million over 2009. Record numbers of New York residents now rely on food …Number of New Yorkers on food stamps has increased to record-high of $3 …New York Daily…

Sampson County to offer disaster food stampsFayetteville ObserverSampson County Department of Social Services will begin accepting requests for disaster food stamps Saturday . Sampson County DSS will take applications through Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Sampson Agri-Exposition Center at 414 Warsaw … More: continued here

Authorities said the scheme involved legitimate food stamp recipients selling their electronic benefit cards for cash, mostly to retailers. More: continued here

New York City’s Independent Budget Office says nearly 1.6 million residents are on food stamps — a pace of growth not seen since the early years of the program in the 1970s. From January 2008 to August of this year, the food stamp enrollment grew by 354,000 people. That’s an increase of nearly 30 percent….

Markets now accept food stampsTopeka Capital Journal, KSBy The Capital-Journal WHITING — Vendors at 11 farmers' markets in Kansas are accepting food stamps, up from two last year. Eleven Kansas farmers' markets now take Vision Cards, the Electronic Benefits Transfer method for the Food Assistance Program in … More: continued here