Dems shoot down Sen. Sessions’ Farm Bill amendments
Welfare reform plan aims to cap spending - TheDC
GOP representatives introduce legislation that would cap welfare spending and introduce work requirements for many programs
Welfare cost for illegal immigrants: $1.6b in one county! - Fox News
Benefits, combined with health care and public safety for illegal immigrants, costs taxpayers billions every year in America’s largest county
Universities encourage students to receive welfare, food stamps - TheDC
Universities encouraging students to receive welfare benefits
Dems urge Congress to pass Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act - TheDC
The childhood nutrition bill will establish nutrition standards for all foods sold during school hours, among other things
New York wants to bar soda from food stamp use - NYT
Mayor Bloomberg sought federal permission on Wednesday to bar New York City’s 1.7 million food stamp recipients from using them to buy soda
Food stamp scam - The Bangor Daily News
Some beneficiaries of the taxpayer-funded federal assistance program are illegally turning food stamps into cold hard cash
Trimming the fat - The Hill
Dems may use food stamp money to pay for Michelle Obama’s nutrition initiative
Teachers unions cash in at expense of food stamp recipients - TheDC
The Senate last week passed their own version of the bill, which cuts $12 billion beginning in 2014 from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance, or ‘food stamps, program to help make the measure deficit neutral
Food stamps take $14 billion hit - Politico
Move attempt by Senate to curb national deficit
Boozin' on food stamps - VICE
It never even crossed my mind that I could get food stamps. It also never crossed my mind that I could buy beer and cigarettes with them.
Colleges encourage hipsters to go on food stamps - THE DAILY CALLER
Traditionally food stamps are for the working poor and single parents, but colleges are trying to make it as easy as possible for students to obtain federal assistance, no matter their socio-economic background
Hipsters on food stamps - Salon.com
Young urbanites with a taste for ciabatta may legitimately be among the new poor
Thanks to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, trendy kids eat for free
Getting food stamps is a SNAP - The Daily Caller
Food stamp distribution has skyrocketed since the U.S. Department of Agriculture renamed the program SNAP in 2008 and began pushing states to give federal food aid to people without verifying their finances
