Tag: Food Stamps

Earlier this week, the Trump administration floated a proposal to change conventional Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits into a program where poor families would instead get "a USDA foods package," a government-assembled, government-sanctioned box of food the government believes you should eat. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Trump’s ‘Blue Apron’ food box idea is terrible for freedom, and probably really popular with the Right

Kristen Soltis Anderson · February 14, 2018 4:44 pm

The proposal is for families to receive some of their benefits "in the form of a USDA Foods package" that would include cereal, pasta, peanut butter, beans, meat, and canned fruit. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Trump administration proposes sending food directly to low-income families

Joseph Lawler · February 12, 2018 9:04 pm

The Department of Homeland Security has drafted rules allowing the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officers to consider an applicant's reliance on taxpayer-funded benefits, including food assistance, government pre-school programs, utility bill subsidies, and health insurance premiums. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Trump administration may block permanent residency requests from visa recipients who receive government benefits

Anna Giaritelli · February 8, 2018 8:34 pm

Work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are seen as one way to save money on the farm bill. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Trump administration wants work requirements for food stamps

Kimberly Leonard · January 24, 2018 8:44 pm

Seema Verma, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, announced on Thursday that the Trump administration would allow states to institute work requirements for Medicaid recipients. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump’s new guidelines: Get a job or volunteer if you want Medicaid

Kimberly Leonard · January 11, 2018 11:00 am

Some analysts predict big gains for Democrats in November - even a takeover in the House, where Republicans have held the majority since 2010 and now enjoy a 21-seat advantage.

GOP agenda runs up against the midterms

Susan Ferrechio · January 9, 2018 5:01 am

It would be hard to imagine a more wasteful and misguided, not to mention degrading, use of scarce taxpayer resources than to police food purchases among the millions of SNAP recipients. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Beltway Confidential

Hungry for accountability: Fixing fraud in food stamps

Leslie Paige · December 19, 2017 4:52 pm

Hunger? Or Just the Munchies?

The Scrapbook · December 15, 2017 9:00 am

With unemployment low and heading toward levels not seen since the days of the dotcom bubble, the country needs more people off government programs and in the workforce, it is argued.

Trump tees up welfare reform

Joseph Lawler · December 5, 2017 5:01 am

Food insecurity has become such a common issue among students in recent years that four campus-based organizations decided to conduct a survey during the spring of 2016. The survey found that 22 percent of students reported being hungry in the previous 30 days. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Red Alert Politics

Trend: Starving college students turn to food pantries

Brendan Pringle · November 28, 2017 2:06 pm

Welfare reform is "desperately needed in our country," the president said Monday. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump says welfare reform is up after taxes

Joseph Lawler · November 20, 2017 5:51 pm

Rather than giving companies new tax breaks or a cut in their overall tax rate, the focus of tax reform should be to completely clean out the code of all the special interest tax breaks and loopholes that companies such as Mylan take advantage of. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg)

Mylan: The poster child of what is wrong with the tax code

Washington Examiner Staff · July 24, 2017 4:01 am