USDA moves to tighten restrictions on food stamps
The Trump administration is setting out to do what this year’s farm bill didn’t: tighten work requirements for millions of Americans who receive federal food assistance.
Plan would allow drug testing for some food stamp recipients
The Trump administration is considering a plan that would allow states to require certain food stamp recipients to undergo drug testing, handing a win to conservatives who’ve long sought ways to curb the safety net program.
Food boxes, not stamps? Idea in Trump budget worries grocers
Finding fresh food in this tiny riverside community that was hit hard by the steel industry’s decline has always been a challenge.
Food box idea draws ire from Democrats, advocates
The Trump administration is pushing what it calls a “bold new approach to nutrition assistance”: replacing the traditional cash-on-a-card that food stamp recipients currently get with a pre-assembled box of canned foods and other shelf-stable goods dubbed “America’s Harvest Box.”
Huge cuts to food stamps part of Trump’s budget proposal
President Donald Trump’s budget would drive millions of people off of food stamps, part of a new wave of spending cut proposals that already are getting panned by lawmakers in both parties on Capitol Hill.
For some, food benefits set to expire
Some Mississippi residents who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits may lose those benefits starting April 1 if they do not satisfy certain work-related requirements.
Food stamp cutoff concerns advocates for poor in Miss.
With 75,000 Mississippians at risk of losing food stamp benefits on March 30 if they don’t find work or training, social service providers fear an influx of hungry people in what’s already the hungriest state in the nation.
Cochran: Mississippi gets $1.9M to detect food benefit fraud
The Mississippi Department of Human Services and Mississippi State University have been granted more than $1.9 million to help combat waste, fraud and abuse in the federal food benefit program.
Our View: Food Stamp program more than meets the eye
Ever since FDR and the New Deal, there has been a robust debate over what to do about the nation’s poor.
In Lowndes, 23 percent on government assistance
The Lowndes County director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services spoke to the Rotary club Tuesday about the department’s efforts with regards to SNAP — the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Training funds target food stamp recipients in Mississippi
A $20.5 million federal program will match SNAP recipients to workforce training and job opportunities in Mississippi.
Census: 1 in 5 children now on food stamps
Sixteen million children were on food stamps as of last year, the highest number since the nation’s economy tumbled in 2008.
Our View: Lowndes County has a real stake in food stamp debate
A recent study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the use of food stamps, also known as the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), has revealed an interesting paradox in Lowndes County.
Obama signs farm bill that trims food stamps
President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law an agriculture spending bill that will spread benefits to farmers in every region of the country, while trimming the food stamp program that inspired a two-year battle over the legislation.
Farm bill doesn’t just benefit farmers
It isn’t just farmers who will benefit from the sweeping farm bill that Congress has sent President Barack Obama. There’s also help for rural towns, grocery stores in low-income areas and, most notably, the nation’s 47 million food stamp recipients.
Farm bill passes House after years of disagreement
After years of setbacks, a nearly $100 billion-a-year compromise farm bill cleared the House on Wednesday despite strong opposition from conservatives who sought a bigger cut in food stamps.
The new face of food stamps: working-age Americans
In a first, working-age people now make up the majority in U.S. households that rely on food stamps — a switch from a few years ago, when children and the elderly were the main recipients.
Docs say cutting food stamps could backfire
Doctors are warning that if Congress cuts food stamps, the federal government could be socked with bigger health bills. Maybe not immediately, they say, but over time if the poor wind up in doctors’ offices or hospitals as a result.
Congress eyes milk prices in farm talks
WASHINGTON — The fight over renewing the nation’s farm bill has centered on cuts to the $80 billion-a-year food stamp program. But there could be
Xerox says access restored for food stamp users
Food stamp recipients should be able to use their debit-style cards in grocery stores now that vendor Xerox Corp. has restored service after a system outage that affected people across 17 states.