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In response to your Monday editorial on increasing food stamp benefits: I understand the view that there are more jobs available, and I do not negate the fact that there are those who are choosing ...
Republicans are working to pass major federal cost cuts to the program, which provides monthly benefits to for some 40 ...
Your Aug. 30 editorial chastises President Joe Biden for expanding the food stamp benefit. But you miss the real point of contention: A family of four right now can make $52,404 a year and get ...
Try living on the average single person's weekly food stamp benefit. You'll understand there is no room left to cut. Since learning of the prospect of federal funding cuts for programs serving ...
Letters to the Editor: If this ... the L.A. Times Editorial Board criticized President Trump’s executive action eliminating federal food stamp benefits to many able-bodied adults between 18 and ...
Try living on the average single person's weekly food stamp benefit. You'll understand there is no room left to cut. Since learning of the prospect of federal funding cuts for programs serving ...
In a May 6 letter, Rhonda Jackson wrote that 774,000 Louisianans struggled with hunger before the pandemic. It has not gotten better. Letters: An increase in food stamp benefits vital to relief ...
Letter: Increase food aid during the pandemic (Robert F. Bukaty | AP file photo) A sign advertises a program that allows food stamp recipients to use their EBT cards to shop at a farmer's market ...
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sais said, he missed an "important letter" and temporarily lost his eligibility in SNAP, the foundational anti-poverty program commonly known as food stamps.
The Congressional Democrats’ letter to the USDA notes that Texas hasn’t met the 30-day mark for processing all food stamp applications since July 2021 — well before the massive review of ...