Sentences with phrase «access food stamps»

The proposed Farm Bill legislation tightens the requirements for applicants to enroll in job training programs in order to access food stamps.

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That bill would have allowed undocumented adults who arrived in the U.S. before a certain date to live and work here legally — but without access to federal benefits like Medicaid, food stamps, or Obamacare health subsidies.

Whether it's a county fair, senior expo, back - to - school night, or conference, our staff will come to you with information on applying for benefits from programs like food stamps and school meals and accessing healthy, affordable food.

The law gives individuals convicted of low - level, nonviolent drug felonies restored access to SNAP (formerly known as food stamps).

2001 — 2002 FRAC and anti-hunger and immigrant allies obtain further restoration of benefits for hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants, significantly improved access to benefits for working families, and other important improvements in the Food Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2002.

Governor Andrew Cuomo seems not to fear being called the food stamp governor - he's proposing ways that more New Yorkers in need can access the federal program.

Ideas ranged from eliminating barriers to food stamps access to adding ferry service to all five boroughs.

«Services will include resources and solutions for housing, food stamps, immigration, Access - A-Ride, employment, immigration status and basic services.»

The move will leave Arizona as the only state that requires fingerprinting for food stamp access.

Accessing data on myriad government programs, ranging from Head Start to housing vouchers to food stamps, has long been a politically sensitive subject.

They generally have access to basic health - care and, thanks to food stamps, basic nutrition.

Access to food stamps and Medicaid was automatic only if the welfare assistance met government approval.

If the United States could somehow guarantee poor people a fair shot at the American dream through shifting education policies alone, then perhaps we wouldn't have to feel so damn bad about inequality — about low tax rates and loopholes that benefit the superrich and prevent us from expanding access to childcare and food stamps; about private primary and secondary schools that cost as much annually as an Ivy League college, and provide similar benefits; about moving to a different neighborhood, or to the suburbs, to avoid sending our children to school with kids who are not like them.

Whether it's a county fair, senior expo, back - to - school night, or conference, our staff will come to you with information on applying for benefits from programs like food stamps and school meals and accessing healthy, affordable food.

Many farmers» markets also now take food stamps, giving low - income consumers access to fresh produce that they might not otherwise be able to afford.

After analyzing FTC complaints from different areas, he concluded that complaints tend to be higher where people have greater access to legal aid, as well as places where more Hispanic families receive food stamps.

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Many of these barriers are the result of «collateral consequences» — penalties embedded in public policy that prevent people with criminal records from accessing basics such as a job, an apartment, or vital public assistance programs such as food stamps.