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Soon You Can’t Use Food Stamps at Farmers Markets — But That’s Not Half of It

Soon You Can’t Use Food Stamps at Farmers Markets — But That’s Not Half of It

| 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...
There’s an All-Out War on Kids, and Not Just on the Border

There’s an All-Out War on Kids, and Not Just on the Border

| 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,...
Family Separation: One Fire Out, Several Others Started

Family Separation: One Fire Out, Several Others Started

| 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...
Another Counterproductive Assault on Food Stamps

Another Counterproductive Assault on Food Stamps

| 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...
A Food Stamp Indignity Worthy of Dickens

A Food Stamp Indignity Worthy of Dickens

| Feb 28, 2018 | Food / Farming|Rights / DemocracyEven Charles Dickens, England’s masterful satirist of the Victorian upper class, couldn’t have imagined elite rulers using a box of food as a gratuitous way to slap poor people. But Donald Trump and two of his slap-happy cabinet officials did imagine it — and...
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