Thousands of low-income people are at risk of losing the ability to buy fresh produce at local greenmarkets because the company that processes 40 percent of of SNAP transactions at those markets is shutting down.
One year and a lifetime ago, American society was vaguely stable and fundamentalist Mormon cult leader Lyle Jeffs was facing federal charges for food stamp fraud and money laundering. Jeffs disappeared while awaiting trial, with his court-appointed lawyer dryly suggesting that perhaps he’d been raptured into Heaven. …
On Tuesday, Donald Trump’s $4.1 trillion budget proposal will be officially introduced, but we already know some of its more grisly details. Our orb-fondling, foot-swallowing POTUS imagines a vastly restructured government without the Affordable Care Act, reshaped by tremendous lacerations to Medicaid, food stamp, and…
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker isn’t going to be president, or vice president, or anything else other than Wisconsin’s personal cross to bear. And that’s fine, because it leaves him more time to pursue his deepest passion: making food stamp recipients pee in cups.
Missouri State Representative Rick Brattin, who’s presumably run out of every other better thing to do, is sponsoring legislation that would prevent people receiving food stamps from buying “cookies, chips, energy drinks, soft drinks, seafood or steak.” He’s already admitted the bill might need “tweaking” to permit…
There's nothing Tea Party freshman and ace troll Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin hates more than a handout: he's vocal on his feelings that welfare is "a bribe not to work that hard" and that food stamp programs "encourage sloth." Now Grothman is reportedly encouraging his constituents to ask a few hard questions of…
Have you ever met a person who says something so backwards that you have to double check to make sure they even knew what they said? Meet Forbes columnist John Tamny, who told Jessica Williams of The Daily Show that he'd abolish food stamps and create something like food stamps all in the same interview.
Know what's even scarier than stumbling into a Walgreens at 3 am and witnessing a woman dressed as Miley Cyrus puking on a guy dressed up as Jesse Pinkman as a muzakal rendition of Silent Night plays over the loudspeaker? What conservatives in the government are doing — and have done — to low income women this week.…
Last month, Cory Booker announced that he'd be living off food stamps for a week, and today was his first day on the program. He has $29.78 for the week.
Sharon Hailey Aceta, an 8th grade math teacher at Rawlinson Road Middle School in Rock Hill, South Carolina, posted a sarcastic and highly inappropriate Facebook status update after Obama won a second term as President earlier this week:
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor David Paterson have asked the federal government to make sugary drinks ineligible for food stamp purchases in New York City. The government already bars the use of food stamps for cigarettes, alcohol, and prepared foods.
Some people think that Nadya Suleman, the mother of octoplets and six other kids, is not being celebrated because she is not white. Writes blogger Kenny Darter:
Americans! We are not exactly not known for excess! But on this, the first of April, perhaps it is time to start a national IM dialogue on whether we have finally somewhat overdosed on the absurdity! For instance, the government is supposed to spend $1.6 trillion on weapons with names borrowed from the Twilight Zone…
