Food Stamps
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Valerie Ervin to live on food stamps for a week
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For a week in Feb., Montgomery County Councilwoman Valerie Ervin plans to live on a daily food budget of just $5.
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D.C. leaders take on 'Food Stamp Challenge'
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Several D.C. leaders will spend the next week living on $30. It's called the "Food Stamp Challenge," and it boils down to about $4 a day for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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Virginia changes food stamp program schedule
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The state Department of Social Services says the staggered schedule for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is scheduled to begin Saturday but changes will take full effect in October.
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Maryland food stamps court fight ends as state improves
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Maryland's Human Resources Secretary Ted Dallas says the state has been processing at least 96 percent of its food stamp applications on time for 19 months in a row.
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Food stamp fraud to be curbed by U.S. government
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Food stamp recipients are ripping off the government for millions of dollars by illegally selling their benefit cards for cash — sometimes even in the open, on eBay or Craigslist — and then asking the government for replacement cards.
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Chef Mario Batali joins food stamp challenge
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Chef Mario Batali, know for programs on Food Network and ABC"s The Chew, is spending the week living on the equivalent of a food stamp budget.
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Food stamp trafficking targeted by USDA
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A criminal swindle of the nation's $64.7 billion food stamp program is playing out at small neighborhood stores around the country.
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Challenge prods Americans to shop like food-stamp recipients
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For the national food stamp challenge that kicked off at a District Safeway teams that each included a food stamp recipient tried to shop for a weeks' worth of food.
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Food bank has to raise $1 million or start charging for produce
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The Capital Area Food Bank is trying to raise $1 million by August 1 to avoid charging its partner agencies that pass out food to the needy.
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Petworth farmers market latest to accept food stamps
The fledgling market, now entering its 2nd year of operation, is the 16th market in the District to begin accepting EBT funds.
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