Articles Tagged with food stamps

Food Stamps Soda Ban Proposed By 18 US Cities

Food Stamps Soda Ban Proposed By 18 US Cities

A food stamps soda ban is in the works for 18 major United States cities. As previously reported by The Inquisitr, food stamps cuts could harm children in the poorest families. Current statistics show that 47 Americans use food stamps under SNAP. Food stamps soda purchases are especially high, estimated to amount to over $2… Read more »

Pet Food Stamps Less Controversial Than Human Ones?

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A new pet food stamps program was announced yesterday, and the story quickly spread across the animal-loving web as people debated whether pets should be protected from an owner’s financial setbacks. The Inquisitr reported upon pet food stamps yesterday and a movement in New York to bridge the gap between assistance for humans and help… Read more »

Cory Booker Food Stamp Challenge: The NJ Mayor Responds To Critics

His mission is to raise awareness of the thousands of Americans who rely on food stamps.

Cory Booker responded to critics of his food stamp challenge on “Piers Morgan Tonight” on Friday. The New Jersey mayor noted that he hopes his actions will inspire “a more heated debate” about food stamps. The Newark, NJ mayor is more than halfway through a week of living on the monetary equivalent of food stamps…. Read more »

Food Stamps Often Spent On Sugary Drinks, To The Tune Of $2 Billion Per Year

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Food stamps are a frequent point of contention when how taxpayer dollars are spent becomes part of the conversation, and — despite the fact benefits to pay for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program pale in comparison to larger expenditures like defense, Social Security, and general corporate welfare — food stamps really bring out the anger… Read more »

Cashier Refuses to Accept Food Stamps For Cigarettes, is Fired

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Food stamps have strangely emerged as one of the wedge issues of right now, in a time where many more Americans are forced to rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, due to a decade of economic hardship across the country. Yes, as increasing numbers of Americans receive food stamps, so too does… Read more »

Nadya Suleman Spending $250 on Haircuts [The War on Welfare]

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As we reported yesterday, Nadya Suleman (better known to the public as Octomom) is currently again under investigation by her local Child Protective Services due to squalor-like conditions reported at her home in La Habra, California. Agents from the local Dept. of Family and Children’s Services (DCFS) knocked on Suleman’s door earlier this week for… Read more »

Food Stamp Use Increased By 70% Since 2007

Food Stamps More Popular Than Ever

Nearly 45 million Americans are currently receiving food stamps and according to a new report issued on Friday by the Congressional Budget Office that number is 70% higher than it was in 2007, right before the housing bubble burst and sent millions of Americans to the unemployment line. According to the CBO report the number… Read more »

“Food Stamp Fridays” at Alabama Club Angers People

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At a time when record numbers of Americans rely on food stamps to feed their children and stock their pantries, the topic remains a hot one, with many suspicious of the poor rather than the high-flying financiers that crashed and burned our economy. Instead of railing against a system that allows banks to treat the… Read more »