| Sep 5, 2018 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Food / Farming|Rights / DemocracyGrowing up, I hated being on “food stamps.” I hated being walked into a welfare office and inspected, queried to make sure we were really our mother’s children. I hated standing in line at the grocery store, knowing we weren’t going to be paying with...
| Jul 18, 2018 | Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedThis week, I thought I would write about food stamps and farmers markets. People on food stamps, officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), receive their benefits on a card that can be read like a credit card. Crucial to allowing...
| Jul 3, 2018 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyDonald Trump’s choice to separate migrant children from their parents has unleashed a flood of outrage across the political spectrum. While the president has stepped back from separating families at the border, his solution is to imprison children with their parents,...
| Jun 27, 2018 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyOver the past few weeks, the news has been wall-to-wall coverage of immigrant children taken from their parents and mistreated at the hands of the U.S. government. Obviously, our first priority as a nation must be to end child concentration camps and to reunite...
| Apr 18, 2018 | Economy / Business|Food / Farming|Rights / DemocracyOnce again, Republicans are taking aim at poor people. What is it this time? Adding a stricter work requirement to receive what used to be known as food stamps. (Today it’s known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, but that just doesn’t have...
