Tag: food stamps
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#MorningMonarchy: February 21, 2018
Kentucky fried crisis, clearing convictions and Putin’s chef + this day in history w/the assassination of Malcolm X and our song of the day by Courtney Barnett on your Morning Monarchy for February 21, 2018.
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#MorningMonarchy: February 14, 2018
Olympics outbreaks, epidemic levels and food stamp collectors + this day in history w/Saint Valentine and our song of the day by Shakey Graves on your Morning Monarchy for February 14, 2018.
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#MorningMonarchy: October 4, 2017
Taco demolition, left coast lawsuits and baby food blackmail + this day in history w/Jim Bakker indicted and our song of the day by And So I Watch You From Afar on your Morning Monarchy for October 4, 2017.
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#MorningMonarchy: April 20, 2017
Bathed in blood, snuff TV and backwards “Fear” + this day in history w/the Columbine Cause and our song of the day by At The Drive-In on your Morning Monarchy for April 20, 2017.
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#MorningMonarchy: January 12, 2017
Mass hysteria, corporate mediums and a Trump “Trackdown” + this day in history w/the Harrisburg Seven and our song of the day by Active Bird Community on your Morning Monarchy for January 12, 2017.
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#MorningMonarchy: June 22, 2016
Dog meat festival, cricket crisps and cockroach cake + this day in history w/Checkpoint Charlie and our song of the day by Spook School on your Morning Monarchy for June 22, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: June 15, 2016
Big soda, SNAP riots and more Portland waterwars + this day in history w/the Magna Carta and our song of the day by Ben Watt on your Morning Monarchy for June 15, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: May 25, 2016
Toxic substances, poison hemlock and human meat + this day in history w/Hands Across America and our song of the day by Leyya on your Morning Monarchy for May 25, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: February 17, 2016
Healthy stamps, ugly food and re-Colonelization + this day in history w/the Blaine Act and our song of the day by the Fruit Bats on your Morning Monarchy for February 17, 2016.
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Wal-Mart’s Dependence on Food Stamps Revealed
from latimes.com: Talk about a “poverty trap”! The phrase was recently used by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan, R-Wisc., to suggest that the nation’s panoply of programs to aid low-income households was keeping them from rising into the middle class. Wal-Mart’s annual report, issued late last week, puts a different spin on things.…
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States Find Ways to Skirt Congressional Cuts in Food Stamps
from washingtonpost.com: Congress last month passed a revamp of agriculture and food policy that was supposed to save the U.S. government $8.6 billion in food-stamp costs over a decade. That may not happen, though, now that some states are finding a way to avoid the cuts. New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania are triggering extra nutrition…
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Military Use of Food Stamps Rises Again
from money.cnn.com: More military families used food stamps to buy milk, cheese, meat and bread at military grocers last year. Food stamp redemption at military grocers has been rising steadily since the beginning of the recession in 2008. Nearly $104 million worth of food stamps was redeemed at military commissaries in the fiscal year ended…
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Farm Bill Ends Subsidies, Cuts Food Stamps
from money.cnn.com: A group of bipartisan lawmakers on Monday agreed to a deal on a farm bill that would end direct subsidies to farms in favor of crop insurance. The deal could trim as much as $90 a month from food stamps for 850,000 recipients. The farm bill would last five years and needs to…
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Food Stamps at Pot Shops Banned Under Colorado Bill
from abcnews.go.com: Food stamps for a pot brownie? It’s an urban myth in Colorado, but state lawmakers want to make sure that doesn’t happen. A bill proposed this week by several Republicans would add marijuana dispensaries to liquor stores, gun shops and casinos as places where recipients of public assistance payments and food stamps can’t…
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Mars Inc. to Libertarians Thwart Food Stamp Health Limits
from bloomberg.com: Nicole Blakey says she can’t stand watching other people buy junk food with the government-issued food-stamp debit cards she’s used to raise three children while earning $9 an hour at a dry cleaner… That view is being defied by an unusual alliance of food producers, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, libertarians and advocates…