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Food stamps
Food stamps news and analysis from The Nation
January 11, 2019
The administration’s proposed changes to the “public charge” rule are already pushing immigrants into the shadows.
January 9, 2019
The people who rely on the government for food, housing, and their paychecks.
December 14, 2018
Welfare offices are the public face of a system designed to control, surveil, and penalize low-income women.
December 13, 2018
A conversation with Chokwe Antar Lumumba about poverty, race, and building a “dignity economy.”
October 18, 2018
It’s based on deeply flawed methodology, resulting from a study whose conclusions are arbitrary. In fact, poverty is seriously understated.
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October 16, 2018
The campaign wants to advance a new understanding of poverty as a traumatic experience inflicted by policy-makers.
February 16, 2018
The boxes are the epitome of hypocrisy for a party that spent eight years howling with rage about a first lady who just wanted school lunches to include more vegetables.
June 29, 2017
Immigrants are already not eligible for public benefits for five years after their arrival. So why did Trump act like they are?
March 31, 2017
Legislation passed this week would enrich a private contractor while throwing people off public assistance.
March 17, 2017
Confusion and fear about an immigration crackdown are causing some families to avoid food banks and public assistance programs.
