Tag: Food Stamps

Rep. Steve King of Iowa argued Wednesday that Congress should build President Trump's border wall by taking money from Planned Parenthood and federal food stamps. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Steve King: Use Planned Parenthood, food stamp money to fund border wall

Pete Kasperowicz · July 12, 2017 12:22 pm

Rep. Jim Jordan's bill, which is a companion to legislation authored by Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, also authorizes $500 million in federal funding for states to spend on job training, community service programs, and other "work activation programs." (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Republicans focus on food stamps as part of major welfare reform

Joel Gehrke · June 26, 2017 4:01 am

Dissatisfaction with American leadership is up since President Trump's election, but economic worries are down. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump’s budget requires and should produce optimism

Washington Examiner · May 24, 2017 4:01 am

"I'd argue that good nutrition is the cheapest healthcare out there," said Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Rep. McGovern advocates for healthy food to save costs

Kimberly Leonard · April 11, 2017 3:09 pm

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is pursuing that goal with a package of reforms to public assistance in the state budget, changes meant to move people from government programs to work. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)

Scott Walker: Welfare reformer?

Joseph Lawler · March 20, 2017 4:01 am

Constituent tells McConnell: ‘I’ll sit down and shut up like Elizabeth Warren’ if you answer vets, coal miners

Daniel Chaitin · February 22, 2017 1:06 am

The state doesn't want to, and shouldn't, pay to create or exacerbate its own obesity problem. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Beltway Confidential

Maine’s common-sense approach on food stamps and soda pop

David Freddoso · February 21, 2017 3:51 pm

Sixty-six percent of the total land on the border is owned by states or individuals, most of which is along the Rio Grande River in Texas.

Uncle Sam doesn’t own the border

Washington Examiner Staff · February 20, 2017 5:01 am

Republican governor asks the president-elect to give the state more authority. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Walker asks Trump to allow Wisconsin to drug test food stamp recipients

Kelly Cohen · December 20, 2016 5:43 pm

America has joined in this worldwide trend because, I think, it is part of the nature of democracy to move towards government-provided welfare. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

The silent revolution

James Bartholomew · December 7, 2016 5:03 am

Many researchers see a flaw in the official income and poverty rate, namely that it only counts cash income and excludes some of the in-kind government benefits that have grown in recent years, such as food stamps. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

For first time since the recession, incomes soared in 2015, while poverty tumbled

Joseph Lawler · September 13, 2016 2:06 pm

Kansas and Maine's experiences indicate that a large number of able-bodied, childless recipients were happy to collect food benefits while they could do so without any obligation. (AP Photo)

Welfare reform, 20 years later

Washington Examiner · August 27, 2016 4:01 am