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Biden's economic victory lap is 58 pages of malarkey
Biden is still trying to take credit for job growth that happened only because of the end of lockdowns. 🥀
'Bizarre agendas': Murder charge against NYC bodega worker is DA Bragg's latest controversy
The murder ♎charge that Manhattan DA Bragg filed against bodega worker Jose Alba is the l🍸atest outrage to result from the progressive agenda the top prosecutor unveiled since taking office,...
Chicken in eꦺvery pot: Hochul doles out $250 in fed cash to needy f🐬amilies
Hochul says Empir🎶e State families on public assistance will receive $250 each in extra state support at a time of spiking inflation and consumer prices.
Welfare is delayinꦉg workers’ return — and Build Back Better would make it ⛦worse
A new study shows that amid the pandemic, available 🙈welfare benefits have become so generous that it makes financial sense for many of the unemployed to stay home rather than...
Woman pepper-sprayed, taken🎉 away in cuffs after social distancing brawl
The encounter happened just afteꦓr 1:15 p.m. outside the Brooklyn Food Stamp Depart🌳ment near the intersection of Bond and Schermerhorn streets in Boerum Hill -- where hundreds of people were...
♋ USDA reports food-stamp enrollment up 40 percent s♋ince March
Enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has increased 40 percent in the past month, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced Wednesday. The increase comes as more than... 🌞
States urge U🏅S to allow SNAP recipients to grocery-shop online
Yvonne Knight, who has respiratory problems that make her especially vulnerable in the coronavirus pandemic, can’t buy groceries🔯 online with her food stamಌps — even though each trip to the...
Federal judge blocks Tr🌺ump plan to kick 700K off food stamps
The rule change would have required able-bodied adults without children to work at least 20 hours a week in order to qualify for "SNAP💛," or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Progra💯m, benefits...
Food stamp change fue🐭ls anxiety as states try to curb impact
📖 CHICAGO — Having🤡 food stamps offers Richard Butler a stability he’s rarely known in his 25 years. He was in state custody at age 2, spent his teen years at...
Pelosi’s never-ending game and other commentary🅠
Impeach watch: Pelosi’s Never-Ending Game Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s delay in transmitting the articles of impeachment to the Senate “puts politics ahead of the US Constitution,” declares Pꦅeter Roff at Newsweek....
💧 New York, the city that keeps on giving away too much money
New York City must have too much money. It keeps giving it away to people who don’t want it. And the city refuses to take the money back when 🥃theꦏ...
Nearly 700K Americans lose access to food stamps under new eligibility rules 🥂
Nearly 700,000 Americans wꦡill lose their access to food stamps under new rules formalized by the Trump administration, the Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday. The proposal will see a tightening...
Millions of Americans could lose food ﷽stamps under new eligibility rules
Millions of people could lose their food stamps, with New Yorkers being particularly hard hit, undཧer new eligibility rules, according to the Urban Institute. The nonprofit found that if proposed...
Trump proposal could cost one million kids automatic access t🌳o free lunches, USDA says
Nearly a million child☂ren could lose their automatic eligibility for free school lunches under a Trump administration proposal that would 🐻reduce the number of people who get food stamps.
ꦬꦕ Iran’s behind the Saudi oil attack and other commentary
༺ Foreign desk: Iran’s Behind the Saudi Oil Attack Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s decision to blame Iran for Saturday’s attacks on the Saudi oil industry was “obvi𒅌ous and necessary,” writes...
Trump's crusade against food stamps has affected 200K Pennsylvanians
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Tom Wolf warned Monday that food stamp benefits 💝for about 200,000 peop🉐le in Pennsylvania are jeopardized by a Trump administration move to stop allowing states to...
Trump administration submits proposal to end food stamps 'loophole'
Residents signing up for food stamps in Minnes⭕ota are provided a brochure about domestic violence, but it doesn’t matter if they even read the pamphlet. The mere fact it was...
Even lefties see GOP has a point about Mueller and other🌸 commenta﷽ry
From the left: On Mueller, ✨the Republicans Have a Point At Slate, B🐼en Mathis-Lilley doesn’t quite buy the GOP claim that the Mueller investigation was “pointless” because “guidelines made it...
Food stamp app breaks download record amid governme𒆙nt shutdown
𓂃 The record♈-breaking government shutdown has spurred a wild spike in downloads of a mobile app that helps people manage their food stamp benefits. Fresh EBT — which enables users to...
Georgia reportedly kick☂s thousands of people off food stamps
G♈eorgia reportedly has taken thousands of people off food stamps — tagging them as ꦺ“able bodied” and unemployed — as the Trump administration continues to crack down on the federally...