- Food-Stamp Use Rises; 15% of Americans Get Benefits http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/08/09/food-stamp-use-rises-some-15-of-u-s-gets-benefits/?blog_id=8&post_id=19884&mod=igoogle_wsj_gadgv1 3 comments politics
- Food-Stamp Use Rises; Some 15% Get Benefits http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/08/09/food-stamp-use-rises-some-15-of-u-s-gets-benefits/?mod=wsj_middlenexttowhatsnewssecond 21 comments politics
- "More than one in seven households were unable to get access to quality food at some point over the past three years, according to a new federal report. But that hasn’t stopped some states from refusing federal food-stamp support in an effort to coax recipients back to work." http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/09/04/food-insecurity-may-be-high-but-states-are-still-saying-no-to-federal-food-stamp-support/?tid=rssfeed 4 comments politics
- Getting Walmart Workers Off Food Stamps Would Cost Customers Barely Anything http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/09/walmart-workers-food-stamps_n_5092262.html 1146 comments politics
- Food stamps will get cut by $5 billion this week http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/28/food-stamps-will-get-cut-by-5-billion-this-week-and-more-cuts-could-follow/ 141 comments politics
- Food Stamps Won’t Buy Soda and Candy If This State Gets Its Way http://dailysignal.com/2015/11/25/food-stamps-wont-buy-soda-and-candy-if-this-state-gets-its-way/ 182 comments politics
- I’ve worked for five decades but still need food stamps to get by https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/11/02/ive-worked-for-five-decades-but-still-need-food-stamps-to-get-by/?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-posteverything%3Ahomepage%2Fcard 88 comments politics
- Is Your Congressman One Of The 13 Who Get Federal Farm Subsidies But Voted To Cut Food Stamps? http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/is-your-congressman-one-of-the-13-who-get-federal-farm-subsidies-but-voted-to-cut-food-stamps/politics/2013/09/21/75493 12 comments politics
- I get food stamps, and I’m not ashamed — I’m angry http://www.vox.com/2015/6/26/8845881/food-stamps 350 comments politics
- US Army suggests troops get food stamps if struggling with high inflation https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/09/us-army-suggests-troops-get-food-stamps-if-struggling-with-high-inflation/ 356 comments military
- Thousands of Amazon workers get food stamps; Bernie Sanders wants Amazon to pay for them http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bernie-sanders-food-stamps-20180824-story.html 106 comments economy
- Thousands of Amazon workers get food stamps. Bernie Sanders wants Amazon to pay for them http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-bernie-sanders-food-stamps-20180824-story.html 92 comments politics
- USDA Chief to People on Food Stamps: Get a Job https://www.motherjones.com/food/2018/01/usda-chief-to-people-on-food-stamps-get-a-job/ 25 comments politics
- USDA Chief to People on Food Stamps: Get a Job https://www.motherjones.com/food/2018/01/usda-chief-to-people-on-food-stamps-get-a-job/ 275 comments politics
- What Happened When a State Made Food Stamps Harder to Get https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/us/food-stamps-work-west-virginia.html 12 comments politics
- Trump administration cuts food stamp program, stating that they're doing so to help people to get back to work. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/04/agriculture-secretary-sonny-perdue-food-stamp-changes-not-about-kicking-people-out.html 99 comments worldnews
- House GOP struggles to get votes for farm bill amid fights over food stamps, immigration https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/17/house-gop-fights-over-immigration-food-stamps-could-tank-farm-bill/616709002/ 6 comments politics
- Meet the Republicans who vote against food stamps while getting millions in farm subsidies for themselves. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/22/1225571/-meet-the-republicans-who-vote-against-food-stamps-while-getting-millions-in-farm-subsidies 11 comments politics
- Congressman Who Gets Millions In Farm Subsidies Denounces Food Stamps As Stealing ‘Other People’s Money’ http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/05/21/2042831/congressman-who-gets-millions-in-farm-subsidies-denounces-food-stamps-as-stealing-other-peoples-money/ 33 comments politics
- In Missouri, murders & child molesters can get Food Stamps, but those with a drug conviction can not. http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/01/3462863/in-missouri-murderers-can-get.html 121 comments politics
- Fox News apologizes for getting a report on food stamp fraud so very, very wrong https://www.salon.com/2016/12/30/fox-news-apologizes-for-getting-a-report-on-food-stamp-fraud-so-very-very-wrong/ 120 comments politics
- Surprise, surprise - Fox News doesn't like the fact that people get Food Stamps. http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201104160002 16 comments politics
- Trump Just Dynamited the Food Stamp Program - This man’s cruelty is boundless. He also just appointed as his homelessness czar a man who tried to get cities to ban charities from feeding the homeless. https://www.thenation.com/article/trump-food-stamps-homeless/ 826 comments politics
- Paul Ryan Defends Cutting Food Stamps For The Poor: ‘You Have To Get Savings In Some Of These Areas’ http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/05/08/478673/paul-ryan-food-stamps/?mobile=nc 15 comments politics
- Given the choice between cutting food stamps and cutting farm aid, GOPers chose food stamps. Here's how many legislators get farm subsidies http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/04/chart-day-big-government-nanny-state-edition 75 comments politics
- New Alabama law would require residents to pass drug tests to get food stamps https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/433192-new-alabama-law-would-require-residents-to-pass-drug-tests-to-get-food 65 comments law
- Cory Booker tweets on income inequality, gets called a Socialist, Mayor makes food stamp challenge, it is on! http://freakoutnation.com/2012/11/21/cory-booker-tweets-on-income-inequality-gets-called-a-socialist-mayor-makes-food-stamp-challenge-it-is-on/# 5 comments politics
- Lady on kidney dialysis awaiting transplant gets mocked by Kroger manager for using food stamps. http://m.13wmaz.com/topstory/article?a=197899&f=924 26 comments politics
- Goldman bankers get rich betting on food prices as millions starve. 20% of Americans are starving-why do we allow this? The same Congress responsible for causing the crisis, now wants to cut food stamps?! http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/goldman-bankers-get-rich-betting-on-food-prices-as-millions-starve-8459207.html 14 comments politics
- The Trump Administration Wants to Muck With the Poverty Line, Making It Harder for Poor People to Get Food Stamps https://slate.com/business/2019/05/trump-poverty-line-food-stamps-medicaid.html 19 comments politics
- Schwarzenegger takes advantage of California’s budget crisis to ram through his pet reforms, and making it even harder for the starving poor to get food stamps! http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20090628_schwarzenegger_has_california_over_a_barrel/ 17 comments politics
- What Happened When a State Made Food Stamps Harder to Get: In West Virginia, tougher work requirements for receiving food stamps complicated life for poor people, but did not result in increased employment https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/us/food-stamps-work-west-virginia.html?action=click&module=top%20stories&pgtype=homepage 3 comments politics
- Amazon Gets Tax Breaks While Its Employees Rely on Food Stamps, New Data Shows - Even as generous subsidies help Amazon turn a profit, thousands of its workers depend on the federal safety net. Independent analyses have shown that the company pays below-average wages for the warehouse jobs. https://theintercept.com/2018/04/19/amazon-snap-subsidies-warehousing-wages/ 420 comments worldnews
- Not sure if this is the right sub but can someone please help me. I make around 1200 a month after taxes. The food stamp eligibility is 1600 or less a month. Will I be able to get food stamps or does it take into account your gross income? https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/6f7o2v/not_sure_if_this_is_the_right_sub_but_can_someone/ 180 comments personalfinance
- How the U.S. spends more helping its citizens than other rich countries, but gets way less: "Tax breaks for lunches eaten on business trips are rarely given the same amount of scrutiny as the use of food stamps at the grocery store, but the ultimate cost to the government is the same." http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/04/09/how-the-u-s-spends-more-helping-its-citizens-than-other-rich-countries-but-gets-way-less/ 24 comments politics
- 1 million expected to lose food stamps as economy improves: "To get ready for the cutoff, states should 'prepare heavily affected local communities' for increased demand at food banks and homeless shelters..." http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/06/news/economy/snap-food-stamps-unemployed/index.html?iid=sf_e_lead 12 comments politics
- Oh SNAP, veterans get dissed by the GOP: "In any given month, a total of 900,000 veterans nationwide lived in households that relied on SNAP [Food Stamps]" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/11/01/oh-snap-veterans-get-dissed-by-the-gop/ 21 comments politics
- Punitive amendments to new immigration bill - Undocumented workers would have to wait 10 years before they can get green cards. During that time, they would get no Medicaid. No food stamps. No ObamaCare subsidies. Nothing. http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/06/23/senate-immigration-benefits-deficit-tax-credits-editorials-debates/2450539/ 3 comments politics
- The GOP's supposed rationale for getting rid of food stamps: We’re becoming a nation of takers, and doing stuff like feeding poor children and giving them adequate health care are just creating a culture of dependency — and that culture, not runaway bankers, somehow caused our economic crisis. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/31/opinion/from-the-mouths-of-babes.html 354 comments politics
- Mom gets 3 years for lying on food stamps application - A Rankin County mother will serve more time in federal prison for lying on her food stamp application than a group of people recently sentenced in a multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scheme. http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20111112/news/111120339/woman-given-3-year-prison-term-lie 1708 comments politics