Food Stamps

Many states ban stamps for ex-prisoners, who face a 50% unemployment rate, making prison the only sure place they won't starve.

Poverty rates have not gone down and hunger in our country may be at its highest levels since the Great Depression.

The Republican controlled House of Representatives have voted on the Farm Bill; part of which includes a $39 billion cut in the food stamp program.

Either there was a massive economic collapse, or people are cheating the government. Who's to say which side is right?

Republicans are playing a trick on people with the negotiations over the budget and threats to shut down the government.

The right to access quality food is profoundly connected to the rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. People of color should enjoy all these rights, but …

“Republicans famously seem intent on being a party of white sanctuary,” writes Robert Borosage in the wake of GOP intentions to cut food assistance programs.

New legislation slashed the budget for food stamps to pad the pockets of big agribusiness.

The basic necessities of life are not for government to give or withhold based on its current budget situation.

If you believe that poverty is the domain of the comfortably poor, black, unemployed, unmotivated and uneducated among us, you have been sadly misled.