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Taking Milk from Babies: The Shocking New Farm Bill Strategy

Some congressional leaders have a shocking new strategy to force through a farm bill at any cost. They are threatening to allow the price of milk to double as a way to compel both the House and Senate...

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Are 14 Percent of Americans Chronically Hungry?

Earlier this week, a New York Times editorial claimed that 14.5 percent of U.S. households are experiencing “pangs of chronic hunger.” This figure is based on a new report from the U.S. Department of...

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Convert Food Stamps to a Work Activation Program

Newscom Earlier this summer, the House took an important step in separating the bloated farm bill into an agriculture-only bill and a food stamp bill, which was introduced yesterday. To make a...

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House OKs Farm Bill That Staggers Food Stamps, Agriculture Programs

While the House of Representatives voted today to rejoin its food stamp bill with its agriculture-only farm bill, it took a critical step to ensure that separation of the farm bill becomes the norm in...

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Farm Bill: A Response to President Obama

In his recent remarks, President Obama made a push to get a new farm bill enacted by the end of the year. Sound agriculture and food stamp policy should be the goal, not getting a farm bill done at all...

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Americans Overwhelmingly Support Separating Food Stamps from Farm Programs

As Heritage has frequently written, food stamps must be separated from agriculture policy to achieve real farm bill reform. These programs should be analyzed and debated on their own merits. A recent...

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The Story on November’s Food Stamps “Cuts”

Newscom The latest buzz about food stamps is that benefit amounts will be “cut” beginning November 1. But what is this “cut”? Basically, it’s the benefit amount returning to the level it would have...

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Farm Bills Would Cost More Than Obama Stimulus

The House and Senate are considering farm bill legislation this week whose costs should raise red flags for all Americans. In fact, the House and Senate versions of the bill would cost far more than...

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Americans Support Stronger Work Requirements for Food Stamps

Newscom Nearly three-quarters of Americans believe that the food stamps program should include stronger work requirements, according to the October Food Demand Survey (FooDS) out of Oklahoma State...

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Government Contractors Prosper, Hispanics Struggle in a Country Growing More...

Sunday’s front page of The Washington Post carried two very different yet related stories about what is happening in our country. The fact they shared this prized journalistic real estate on the same...

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Liberals Angry About Food Stamp Program “Cuts” They Supported

Newscom Food stamp program benefits decreased at the beginning of November when a temporary boost from the 2009 stimulus package expired. This reduction is now being dubbed a “cut” by the very members...

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A Farm Bill in Name Only

Cartoon by Glenn Foden To paraphrase a famous Mark Twain quote, suppose you passed a farm bill. And suppose you passed a food-stamp bill. But I repeat myself. Hard as it may be to believe, 80 percent...

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A Case for Separating the Farm Bill: Passing Trillion-Dollar Bills Should Be...

Olivier Douliery/Pool/Sipa USA As of last week, President Obama’s number one economic priority is a new farm bill. He recently stated: Number one, Congress needs to pass a farm bill that helps rural...

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Farm Bill Extension Would Be Better Than $1 Trillion Food Stamp/Subsidy Disaster

Congress doesn’t have much time to work out a food stamp/farm bill this year. If no farm bill is passed, this wouldn’t be the end of the world. Just like it did last year, Congress can pass an...

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Proposed Cuts Would Barely Dent Massive Growth of Food Stamps

Food stamp spending is at historic highs—it has doubled twice since 2000. Now some on Capitol Hill say the House is trying to make major cuts to the program, but they’re really making some much-needed...

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8 Things to Watch for in the Farm Bill

Federico Gambarini/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom The House and Senate are working out differences between their farm bills. The following is a list of major questions to consider if the negotiators do...

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Guess What Group is Getting Food Stamps at an Alarming Rate

Newscom Food stamp rolls have been growing rapidly. But what many may not realize is that participation among able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) has been skyrocketing compared to the total...

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House Conservatives Reaffirm Push for Separate Food Stamp, Farm Bills

Rep. Louie Gohmert (Credit: Congressional Quarterly/Scott J. Ferrell/Newscom) As negotiations continue over the farm bill, conservative members of Congress voiced their commitment to keeping...

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Disturbing Reports Show Problems of Farm Bill “Logrolling”

Federico Gambarini/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom As the farm bill debate presses on, recent reports clearly show why separating farm programs from food stamps is so important. After the House took the...

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You Won’t Believe How Many Food Stamp Recipients Have Attended College

Chris Zuppa/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom If you’ve attended college or received a college degree, you’re facing better-than-average odds of managing to find and hold a job, even in this dismal economy. So it’s...

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Big Bank Account? No Problem. You May Still Qualify for Food Stamps

© John Decker/Sacramento Bee/ZUMAPRESS.com Under existing federal policy, it doesn’t matter how much money you have in your bank account: you can still be eligible for food stamps. A policy known as...

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What Congress Did While You Were Talking About the State of the Union

Cartoon by Glenn Foden Congress is very fond of two things: throwing a bunch of stuff into one bill and rushing bills through while Americans are focused on other news. While people were talking about...

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A Soviet Central Planner Would Blush at What House Republicans Voted For

Every five years, Congress takes a holiday from the principles that made this country  great and turns to central planning policies that were in vogue in 1933. This nightmare holiday is the farm bill....

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Lee Introduces Plan to Reform Welfare

Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call Sen. Mike Lee (R–UT) introduced legislation last week to make welfare meet needs more constructively while exercising fiscal responsibility. His new bill—whose House companion...

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Record 20 Percent of Households on Food Stamps

Photo Credit: John Decker/Sacramento Bee/ZUMAPRESS.com Recent data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture indicates that more than 23 million households—a record 20 percent—are now on food stamps....

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The Sneaky Way Three States Are Getting Around a New Food Stamp Reform

Newscom Three states are trying to get around a new minor reform Congress made to the food stamp program. In the farm bill it passed earlier this month, Congress tightened a loophole dubbed “Heat and...

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Billions Wasted on “Improper” Food Stamp Payments

According to a new report issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), $2.7 billion worth of improper food stamp payments were made in fiscal year (FY) 2012. That equals 3.8 percent of total...

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“Heat and Eat” Food Stamp Loophole Costs Taxpayers

Governors in seven states are flouting a reform from last month’s farm bill by continuing to exploit a food stamp loophole that will cost taxpayers billions. At least five others are planning or...

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Congress Failed to Eliminate Costly Food Stamp Loophole

It took Congress months to come up with a farm bill, but in the end all it did was make a miniscule tweak to a problematic loophole in the food stamp program known as “heat and eat.” But their small...

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What Bill Gates Got Right on Welfare Reform

Bill Gates shared some insightful comments on welfare reform in an interview last month with Rolling Stone. “Why aren’t the technocrats taking the poverty programs, looking at them as a whole, and then...

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