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How to Apply for Food Stamps
An eye-opening journey through the world of EBT cards.
Lifestyle
Watch Your Mouth: What Should Food Stamps Subsidize?
The federal food stamp program is about alleviating poverty, not discouraging obesity, so farmers' markets or fatty snacks are both fair game.
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15 Percent of Americans Are Now on Food Stamps
The number of people getting money to feed themselves and their families hit an all-time high in May.
Lifestyle
Food Stamp Use at NYC Greenmarkets Doubled Last Year
Over the past couple of years, New York's City Council has spent $1.3 million equipping farmers' markets with machines that can process food...
Culture
More People Now Collect Food Stamps Than Live in California and Colorado Combined
Food stamp usage is up 14 percent from last year, with tens of millions of Americans using the service and costing the country $6 billion a month.
Lifestyle
The Incentive to Buy More Fruits and Vegetables With Food Stamps
A new $20 million program gives discounts to Massachusetts food stamp recipients who buy fresh produce. The Boston Globe
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Nearly 50 Million Americans Have Difficulty Obtaining Food
New USDA research reveals the huge number of people struggling to eat, the reason our welfare programs are so necessary right now.
Lifestyle
How Fingerprinting Food Stamp Recipients Hurts Everyone
New York will stop fingerprinting its food stamp recipients. That's good for the hungry—and the economy.
Lifestyle
Food Studies: Farmers' Market Ethnography
In which Erin, cupcake baker turned gastronomy student, leaves the safety of the library to conduct on-the-ground food stamp research.
