In those days when they went out to eat with food stamps, they did not have food stamps. When they went out in a short time, they took some grain-packed flowers to eat as dry food on the road.
Families who subsist on food stamps and live at or below the poverty level can't afford supplements, and there are many such families.
The story underneath was about an increase in the demand for food stamps[4], after an effort to publicise their availability.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said that the number of Americans receiving food stamps reached 39.68 million in February 2010, the highest number since the program began in 1962.
Cuz man,these goddam food stamps do not buy diapers.
The census ignores non-cash benefits such as government health insurance, food stamps and subsidised housing.
James Weill, President of the food Research and Action Center, said that would be cutting benefits for some 40 million people now receiving food stamps.
Take food stamps, a programme designed to ensure that poor Americans have enough to eat, which is seen by many Republicans as unsustainable and by many Democrats as untouchable.
An individual who is either a member of a family whose income is below the poverty level, or who is receiving cash benefits from a federal, state or local welfare program, or is receiving food stamps, or who is a homeless person, or who is a foster child, or is a disabled person.
The absence of food stamps separately would increase the poverty rate to 17.2 percent.
He believes that setting up his heirs with "a lifetime supply of food stamps just because they came out of the right womb" can be "harmful" for them.
Another said Madoff had "cheated so he could lead a life of luxury"; another still said Madoff had "discarded her like roadkill" and that she was now living on food stamps.
My mother hated using food stamps, because she was a ghetto snob. And sometimes using food stamps could be a little embarrassing.
In normal circumstances an unemployed, able-bodied worker below that level gets food stamps for no more than three months in a three-year period.
為什麼他們不像我？是什麼讓他們這麼不同？是因為他們的出生嗎？我竭盡所能地工作，所以不用靠食品券和房屋招租為生。如果……如果我更努力地工作呢？我離那層膜如此的近，觸手可及。 Why not people like me？What made them so different？Because of they were born？I was working as hard as I could,so I didn't end up on food stamps or house …what if I work even more？I was so close to the skin now I can touch it.
She says that there tend to be more diet-related deaths in places where "fringe" retailers accept food stamps.
The bill affects only cash benefits, not food stamps.
A few weeks ago a New York cab driver nearly broke down in tears as he told me he'd had to apply for food stamps to continue feeding his family.
But most of those on food stamps need more, and are forced to make use of handouts of groceries or to visit soup kitchens.
Critical of the self-indulgence of the super-rich, Buffett thinks of inheritances as"privately funded food stamps"that keep children of the rich from leading normal, independent lives.
Areas with higher exposure also had larger increases in workers receiving unemployment insurance, food stamps and disability payments.
The distribution of food stamps and other child nutrition benefits, would not be affected.
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