food stamps
Harvard Tells Grad Students to Get Food Stamps to Supplement The Unlivable Wages It Pays Them
The university is hosting an event encouraging graduate students to apply for federal food assistance.
Why Can’t You Buy Hot Meals With Food Stamps?
The restriction is often derided as cruel, anti-poor, and arbitrary.
These Republicans Want to Kill Food Stamps for People with Decent Cars
A car valued at, say, $7,000 would disqualify you under the new proposed rules in Ohio.
Diet Critics Are Scared Millennials Aren’t Eating ‘Healthy’ in the Pandemic
We’re in the middle of several crises; heaven forbid we have some potato chips about it.
Trump Is Still Coming Up With New Ways to Punish the Poor
His latest move will take away vital benefits from around 700,000 people in what experts call a "punitive measure."
How the government shutdown hurt millions of people on food stamps
The shutdown was more than an inconvenience for the 40 million people on food stamps.
The Government Shutdown Is Putting These Foods in Danger
Food stamp funding also hangs in the balance as the US enters its longest shutdown in history.
The Trump administration is trying to made it harder for hundreds of thousands of people to get food stamps
Most able-bodied adults without kids already have to work for a certain amount of hours each month to collect food stamps from the federal program.
Ohio Strip Club Loses License After Accepting Food Stamps for Lap Dances, Hard Drugs
SNAP benefits are not to be used for tobacco products, alcoholic beverages, ornamental gourds, or uh, meth and boobs.
Being a kid is a "negative factor" under Trump's new immigration rule
“A person’s age may impact his or her ability to legally or physically work and is therefore relevant to being self-sufficient, and the likelihood of becoming a public charge.”
Beef Update: Bernie Sanders Literally Introduced a ‘Stop Bezos’ Bill
Sanders has made Amazon the poster child for everything wrong with the modern labor market.
People Are Scared to Use Health Safety Nets Because of ICE
Known as a "chilling effect," this public health principle can lead to a drop in everything from vaccinations and routine doctor visits to prenatal and HIV care.