Food Stamps

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June 18, 2013
POLITICS NATION - The House of Representatives takes up debate on the Farm bill Tuesday, which in its current form…
June 17, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is threatening to veto the House version of a massive, 5-year farm bill, saying…
June 7, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Over 25 percent of all black households lacking access to enough food to live a healthy lifestyle...
May 17, 2013
OPINION - Late Wednesday night, the House Agriculture Committee approved a farm bill that includes severe cuts to anti-hunger programs.…
May 15, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Agriculture Committee is set to consider small cuts to the $80 billion-a-year food stamp program…
December 21, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Booker, who is now in his second term as mayor, is focused on finishing up his tenure…
December 6, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Cory Booker is on day three of his food stamp challenge, which, so far, has resulted in…
December 4, 2012
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - He and one of his Twitter followers each plan to live for a week on the…
December 3, 2012
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Booker told The Associated Press on Thursday that he will honor the challenge he made to…
September 27, 2012
Greg Stanton, the mayor of Phoenix, has been living on food stamps for a week to coincide with Hunger Awareness…
June 18, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans say Congress could cut the cost $2 billion a year by just closing a pair of…
June 13, 2012
VIDEO - Al Sharpton and former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, clashed in a heated exchange on Sharpton’s show…
June 12, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A former caseworker for the Illinois Department of Human Services was sentenced to probation and jail time…
May 22, 2012
OPINION - A former NFL star takes the challenge to live on the equivalent of food stamps -- or $31…
April 18, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - The cuts are mostly familiar, though a plan to cut food stamps goes well beyond a bipartisan…
March 27, 2012
MIAMI - North Miami Beach Police are investigating after a group of high school students who walked out of school…
March 27, 2012
Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain did an interview with conservative radio host Neal Boortz recently where he explained that…
March 15, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - With recent light shed on 'food deserts' -- or neighborhoods without access to quality healthy foods --…
March 13, 2012
OPINION - The Republican Party is obsessed with fraud. Like tax cuts, it is a cause célèbre, even where fraud…
March 7, 2012
Newt Gingrich may have allowed his war on food stamps to die down, but Minnesota State Rep. Mary Franson is…