Tag: Food Stamps

Poverty, economic inequality, government infrastructure and immigration become the topics of policy debates in 2014. (iStock Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Reviewing 2014’s domestic policy debates

Jason Russell · December 27, 2014 10:00 am

Beltway Confidential

States with the highest percentage of residents on food stamps

Jason Russell · December 24, 2014 10:00 am

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Governing vs. giving

John Stossel · December 17, 2014 7:09 pm

Washington Secrets

Survey: Hunger rate doubles, 9% forced to skip a full day of eating

Paul Bedard · December 17, 2014 3:20 pm

US spent 7x more on food stamps than Customs and Border Protection

Terence Jeffrey · November 26, 2014 9:10 pm

The Federal Employees Compensation Act costs the federal government more than $3 billion every year, with the postal service soaking up 40 percent of all such expenses. (iStock)

Postal worker admits to $250,000 disability scam

Sarah Bedford · November 24, 2014 5:12 pm

Texas Rep. Mike Conaway is promising to take a "thoughtful" look at the benefits program formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.Â

This Republican congressman wants to re-evaluate food stamps

Kelly Cohen · November 20, 2014 9:50 pm

President Lyndon Johnson speaks during a televised address from the White House, Jan. 31, 1966. (AP/Marty Lederhandler)

The right and wrong approach on poverty

John Stossel · October 8, 2014 3:47 pm

Fact Checkers Reach a Suspicious Agreement on Tom Cotton

Mark Hemingway · September 25, 2014 3:25 pm

Health council urges market to accept food stamps

Washington Examiner · September 20, 2014 4:41 pm

FILE - This Dec. 20, 2013, file photo shows shoppers passing through the Sweet Auburn Curb Market in Atlanta. Cuts to the nation's food stamp program enacted earlier this year are only affecting four states, far from the sweeping reform that Republicans had pushed, according to an Associated Press review. As a result, it's unclear if the law will realize the estimated $8.6 billion in savings over 10 years that the GOP had touted. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Only 4 states will see cuts to food stamps

MARY CLARE JALONICK · September 17, 2014 5:43 pm

Retail chains that accept food stamps are fighting a regulatory initiative to make public store-by-store data on their participation in the $80 billion government program. (AP Photo/Allen Breed)

Retailers want food stamp data secret

Luke Rosiak · September 15, 2014 7:09 pm