Tag: food stamps

Actress Gweneth Paltrow is living pretty rough these days. She can only spend $29 on food for the entire week. The actress hasn't fallen...

For five days in the Fall of 1921, as many as 10,000 coal miners stood up for their rights as hard working Americans and...

Earlier this week, Gene Alday, a Republican state representative in Mississippi, sparked a national firestorm when he said that all of the blacks in...

A state representative in Mississippi is catching well-deserved heat after saying that the blacks in his hometown would rather spend "welfare crazy checks" than...

The Republicans are up to their old tricks again. Republicans?want to cut funding and change the rules for people receiving?food stamps?through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...

Poverty isn't usually about bad choices. People whose needs have always been met?seem to think that people are poor because they've made bad decisions...

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// // With the smell of money and mid-term elections in the air, cuts in food stamp programs and the problems that the few...

  A large animal veterinarian and Republican congressman from Florida, Ted Yoho -- who first received recognition because of his support of the "birther" conspiracy...

This post addresses what can and can not be bought with food stamps (SNAP) and first appeared on the Poor as Folk blog, which...

With over 2 million workers, Walmart is the largest employer in the U.S.?Although the company claims that the average hourly wage of its "associates"...

    Once upon a time, political finger-pointing was left to floor debates and campaign rallies. Conservative-minded media and citizens have joined the game in recent years,...

Wal-Mart is always a leader. Now they are leading in a relatively new economic reality. In economics there are two well-known cycles. One labeled...

Hungry? Broke? Tough luck, nobody cares. That's about the long and short of it one would think. Yesterday's $5 billion cut to the Supplemental Nutrition...

Diane Katz is a respected writer and thinker from The Heritage Foundation (THF). The think tank founded by the co-founder of The Moral Majority,...