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Florida House panel rejects food stamp sweets ban
NECN (AP) — A proposal to prevent food stamps from being used to buy sweets and salty snacks died Monday in a Florida House subcommittee. The panel stripped the junk food provision from a bill (HB 1401) that also would prohibit welfare recipients from … Florida House Panel Tosses Out Food Stamp Junk Food Ban ^..6270< AP-FL-XGR–Food Stamps-No Sweets,123 Food-Ban Bills Take a Bite out of Reason |
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