Sentences with phrase «on food stamps»

I supported us by working crap minimum - wage jobs and relying on food stamps to make ends meet.

Then, all of your fears will be realized when you are living on food stamps in your 80s.

The country is wasting a lot of money on food stamps and school lunch programs that are allowed to be spent for less than the best nutrition.

He heard government leaders talk about balancing the budget by cutting back on the food stamp program, even while they rescued a struggling aircraft corporation with massive federal aid.

And I see what people are buying on food stamps and I wouldn't call what they buy actual food so I won't shed a tear over that either.

New federal data shows that 20 percent of children are relying on food stamps to eat.

Exemptions to the fee would include people on food stamps as well as those using bags at restaurants and for medication.

In May, a record 45.8 million Americans (nearly 15 % of the population) relied on food stamps for survival, a 12 % increase from last year and 34 % jump from 2009.

Kupricka found that the county has lost 2,400 manufacturing jobs since 2000 — leading to nearly double the amount of families on food stamps as there were six years ago.

Non-edibles are things that can't be gotten on food stamps, but are things needed.

There's enough bribe money floating around so Santorum won't be needing to go on food stamps like everyone else.

Newark mayor Cory Booker is going to get on the level of his city's struggling by going one week on food stamps only, spending about $ 29.87 on groceries (the average...

Eighty - two percent of East St. Louis children depend on food stamps, 28 percent of births are to teen mothers and 22 percent of mothers receive no or inadequate prenatal care, according to the nonprofit group Vision for Children at Risk.

The government can support this with a thorough investigation into the situation to determine if it is safe and to explore ideas for making it safer, such as getting parents on food stamps to help pay for food, or providing parenting education to new parents who have difficulty caring for an infant.

With the record high unemployment, a record number of 46 million Americans are now on food stamps as their primary source of food.

The mayor and Gov. David Paterson had asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to bar the 1.7 million New Yorkers who rely on food stamps from using them to buy sugary drinks.

eg 47 million of 317 million are now on food stamps in the US.

Amazon ranks nineteenth among Ohio businesses in number of employees on food stamps, behind Walmart, McDonald's, and Kroger.

So even though the minimum wage has been raised in Massachusetts and out West, when the minimum wage level is raised, that means the families that have been living on food stamps while they've been working at McDonald's or at other low - wage companies don't qualify anymore.

Maine wants to ban its residents on food stamps from buying soda and sweets, San Francisco approved health warnings on ads for sugary drinks, and the government and big food companies are still going back - and - forth on mandatory labeling.

Obama has already doubled the nubmer of people on food stamps by increasing the salaries earned so he can get the manimum number of lazy deadbeats on government welfare programs.

Full - time faculty are beginning to seek other jobs, and there are part - time faculty on food stamps because their CUNY salaries are so low.»

The farm bill reauthorization typically lasts five years and sets aside money for farm subsidies, rural development, environmental conservation programs, though nearly 80 percent is spent on food stamps and other nutrition assistance.

While soda lobbyists, of course, objected to the restriction on food stamp use, even many public health experts questioned it from the get - go, fearing that it unfairly singled out people who receive food stamp.

«But the bottom 50 million on food stamps really gets at my craw,» McNealy said, without specifying any other programs.

The entrepreneur that was once on food stamps sold the company to Facebook for $ 19 billion — something that wouldn't have happened if he never pursued his idea because he felt there were already messaging apps available.

For Koum, 38, the windfall would stand in stark contrast to his years as a teenager, when his family relied on food stamps after emigrating from Ukraine.

The trillion dollars a year for military policing of the oil supply while our infrastructure crumbles and 44 million people are on food stamps seems like a pretty good deal.

For example, Facebook refused to take down a photo of a black man missing a tooth and wearing a Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket on his head with the caption: «Yeah, we needs to be spending dat money on food stamps wheres we can gets mo water melen an fried chicken.»

I'd like to have a president who doesn't keep his money in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands.I'd like to have a president who knows more people are on food stamps today because tax cuts for the rich did not create jobs and caused this country to go down the drain.

After all, Haas is the founder and former executive director of Public Voice for Food and Health Policy, a Washington consumer group that has criticized the USDA's school lunch program (as well as its policies on food stamps and dietary guidelines) for more than a decade.

For today's Friday Buffet: reader poll results on food stamps and soda; a TLT journalistic scoop (in my blogger dreams); and a new entry into the category of Bizarre (but possibly delicious) Foodstuffs.

In Syracuse, Ms. Gillibrand is campaigning for Colleen Deacon, 39 years old, who was a waitress on food stamps before entering politics and worked for six years as the senator's regional aide.

WASHINGTON, D.C. The House will vote on a bill this week that proposes implementing stricter work requirements on food stamp recipients.

Cuomo, in calling for the establishment of the fast - food wage board and more recently an increase in the state minimum wage, decried the reliance on food stamps and other public assistance by low - wage workers.

And he says the state will be spending less on food stamps and other supplemental programs for the underpaid workers.

A growing number of local programs from Boston to San Diego are trying to make healthier foods more appealing and affordable for low - income families — the population of Americans who are most reliant on food stamps, and most likely to be obese.

«Obesity can not be totally pinned on food stamps,» says Jay Zagorsky, a research scientist at The Ohio State University's Center for Human Resource Research and lead author of the study, «but it certainly is related to how the program is structured.»

September 21, 2017 • South Carolina researchers have drawn a connection between low - income students» poor performance on math tests and the time of month when their families run low on food stamps.

They might buy lobster on food stamps.

MrDoublingDollars recently posted... How I Ate All Week For Just $ 13.34 By Living On a Food Stamp Budget

Experiencing Scottish storytelling through the tale of Greyfriars Bobby at the churchyard, stopping at the eponymous pub, and then peeking into the Elephant House, where J.K. Rowling (then on food stamps) first had this really good idea about a book on magic.

Vast difference living on food stamps for 1 week knowing you've a safetynet of millions, and that being your life every day @GwynethPaltrow