Tag: food stamps
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usda targets stores in food stamp trafficking
from ap: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is upgrading technology used to combat a swindle of the nation’s $64.7 billion food stamp program that diverts as much as $330 million annually. The agency last month awarded a 10-year contract worth up to $25 million to a Fairfax, Va. company, SRA International Inc., to improve monitoring…
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11/3 binge & purge: stamps, pantries & the car connection
$15t in debt, 45m on food stamps & zero solutions* US seeks china aid on food safety* cupboard is bare at staten island’s food pantries* people eat more fast-food as income rises* video: michigan rethinks food stamp-car connection*
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california rep. speier takes ‘food stamp challenge’
lawmaker, faith leaders try living on $4.50/day – like 1 in 7* from patch: A total food budget of $4.50 a day may be tough to swallow, but Congresswoman Jackie Speier plans to try. Starting Monday, the Peninsula Democrat will begin a five-day challenge to live on a food stamp budget. Participants, including faith leaders,…
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fingerprinting those seeking food stamps is denounced
from nytimes: Taking aim at a practice she called unnecessary, costly and punitive, the speaker of the City Council, Christine C. Quinn, is asking the Bloomberg administration to justify requiring applicants for food stamps to be electronically fingerprinted. New York City, where 1.8 million people receive food stamps, is one of only two jurisdictions in…
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Should Restaurants Be Allowed to Accept Food Stamps?
With food-stamp benefits more than doubling in recent years, the restaurant industry has decided it wants in on the action. Federal law currently prohibits restaurants from accepting food stamps, although exceptions are allowed for the disabled, elderly and homeless.
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Ban On Using Food Stamps to Buy Soda Rejected By USDA
Federal officials on Friday rejected Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s proposal to bar New York City’s food stamp users from buying soda and other sugary drinks with them.
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Michigan Dumps 30k College Students From Food Stamps, Saves $75M
About 30,000 college students are getting a real-world lesson in economics after cash-hungry Michigan kicked them off of food stamps to save roughly $75 million per year.
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7/14 Binge & Purge: Gardens, Floodgates & Playgrounds
Record 1 in 6 now on food stamps as depression escalates // 12 signs that the world is running out of food // Police state in action: woman faces 93 days in jail for planting vegetables in her front yard // Bureaucrats in Michigan threaten woman with jail time for vegetable garden // Nestle to…
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6/23 binge & purge: cruelty, control & the cost-effective clean 15
house rebukes looming fda frankenfish approval* pesticide spraying near streams to expand under house bill; hr872 lets farmers bury ‘clean water act’* utah man accused of eating live rat, posting video online charged with animal cruelty* chicago grocers accused of $500k food stamp fraud* conagra foods’ net income increases, warns high costs could hurt future…
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4/7 binge & purge: easter, grocer, toxic, addiction
oregon salmonella case brings easter chick warning* audio: bpa ban advances in oregon legislature* north portland grocer charged with food stamp fraud* trouble in the bat world means trouble for US food supply?* 14 die after eating toxic sardines in madagascar* processed food from stone tools to tv dinners: food technology has been bad for…
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2/3 Binge & Purge: Federal Farm & Volatility Valley
Global food prices hit new record high // World entering era of food price volatility // US foolishly looks to Monsanto to feed the world // Taco Bell sells fake meat. So what? Everybody’s doing it.
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1/20 Binge & Purge: Bailout Pizza & GM Eggplant
Domino’s gets $12M bailout as experts warn of food riots // GM eggplant trials suspended in Philippines // The more Americans go on food stamps the more money JPMorgan makes
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12/9 Binge & Purge: Nano-Foods & Merck Muppets
Dems try to pass ‘Food Safety’ by hiding it in hr3082 // Leaked cables reveal GMO, agrofuel agendas // Sesame Street rolls out superfood Muppets sponsored by Merck
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1 in 7 US Homes Hit By Hunger; Numbers Nearly Doubling
The number of U.S. households that reported getting emergency food from a food pantry almost doubled between 2007 and 2009, at the height of the recession, a government report said on Monday.
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10/28 Binge & Purge: Food Stamp Fortune Cookie
Food stamp usage soars among working families // Why Monsanto is paying farmers to spray its rivals’ herbicides // FDA seizes $700,000 of rice from Georgia warehouse // One-third of US adults could have diabetes by 2050