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New bill bans food stamps for violent felons
Salon “Vitter's amendment would extend the lifetime food stamp ban to dangerous sex offenders and murderers.” Timothy Smeeding, director of the University of Wisconsin's Institute for Research on Poverty, called the amendment “ridiculous.” “It doesn't save … GOP Food Stamps Proposal Would Discriminate Against African-Americans Senator Uses Farm Bill To Ban Some Ex-Convicts From Food Stamps For Life Senate farm bill amendment bans murderers, rapists and pedophiles from … |
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