Food stamps

Eliminating Idaho’s property tax has a sweet sound for a lot of people.

But let’s be clear, poverty comes first. The stores come later.

Households that were approved or re-evaluated by Jan. 15 will receive benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program this coming Sunday, Jan. 20.

There are no serious food stamp revisions but the President may have more leeway to alter benefits.

Charles Blow is a whining liberal. Charles Blow is looking for a reparations check. Charles Blow is a New York Times columnist with a fat paycheck and, yet.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Starting in July, Idaho will start staggering the release of food stamps. Instead of everyone who receives help from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

WASHINGTON (AP) — Retailers that accept food stamps would have to start stocking a wider variety of healthy foods or face the loss of consumers under proposed rules expected to be announced by the Agriculture Department on Tuesday.

BOISE (AP) — State health officials have unveiled new rules regarding penalties for not meeting the state's food stamps eligibility requirements.

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One in seven Americans receives help from the government to buy food, and all but 14 states saw double-digit spikes in the number of people getting food stamps year over year. Idaho had the largest one-year increase in the country, 28 percent, according to the latest government figures for the one-year period that ended in November 2010...