New today: To marry and not to marry, a food-stamps'loophole' helping people …The Christian Century (blog)President Obama signed the 2014 farm bill into law, and now the food stamps program is less loophole-y. Except that the provision in question isn't really a loophole. Where is home? by Laura Kelly Fanucci. …
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Read More »Gun-wielding group pistol-whips, robs teen of his food stamps card: NYPD – New York’s PIX11 / WPIX-TV
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