Food Stamps Used for Starbucks Frappuccinos

Oregon Trail Cards — which are part of the state’s food stamp program — can be used to purchase expensive coffee concoctions at Starbucks counters inside grocery stores, investigators from Fox 12 in Oregon discovered. More: continued here

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Food stamps are not for trading – Elizabethton Star

Food stamps are not for tradingElizabethton StarBy Staff Reports The US Department of Agriculture is making headway on cutting down on fraud in the nation's $64.7 billion food stamp program, but it still has a long way to go. Eliminating the abuse is important, not only because it's a misdirection …

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Fact Checking Newt Gingrich’s Food Stamps Claims

Food stamps is the latest program to be targeted by Newt Gingrich, but the 2012 candidate’s assertions about the program aren’t quite correct. Speaking in Iowa on Wednesday, the former Speaker railed against food stamps, one of the federal government’s assistance programs to help low-income… More: continued here

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