That's another reason why a food-stamp cut is madness, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard (RJ) Eskow: Forget Teddy Roosevelt! If the Rich Pay, Everybody Pays] Reference

Brent has another problem that impacts his food-stamp usage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anneli Rufus: Eating for Almost Nothing] Reference

Still, the food-stamp boost has increased her purchasing power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boost in Food-Stamp Funding Percolates Through Economy] Reference

The U.S. recently expanded unemployment and food-stamp benefits.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S., Europe Are an Ocean Apart on Human Toll of Joblessness] Reference

She was to spare Medicaid-eligible services and food-stamp benefits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big State, Big Cuts, Little Room] Reference

Likewise, the number of Medicaid and food-stamp recipients has jumped sharply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meanwhile, Life Goes On] Reference

At the Davenport market, food-stamp purchases have boosted business at Sawyer Beef.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boost in Food-Stamp Funding Percolates Through Economy] Reference

(Overall, the city's food-stamp roll has increased 22% to about 1.6 million people.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Recession Takes Toll on Living Standards] Reference

Current rules bar food-stamp recipients from using benefits to buy alcohol and cigarettes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gillibrand Not Sweet On Sugary Drinks Plan] Reference

The number of food-stamp recipients in the county has nearly tripled over the past two years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stadium Raises Ire in County Hit Hard by Recession] Reference

For years, the food-stamp program was plagued by criticism that it was an inefficient way to help the poor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boost in Food-Stamp Funding Percolates Through Economy] Reference

Farmers markets in Iowa have been particularly aggressive in courting the business of food-stamp recipients.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boost in Food-Stamp Funding Percolates Through Economy] Reference

But it also has put more money into the hands of the poorest Americans by boosting monthly food-stamp allocations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boost in Food-Stamp Funding Percolates Through Economy] Reference

For grocery stores and farmers markets, the added food-stamp revenue has helped offset slower sales to other consumers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boost in Food-Stamp Funding Percolates Through Economy] Reference

And one in 50 Americans now lives in a household with a reported income that consists of nothing but a food-stamp card.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Stock Prices And Future Growth Prospects] Reference

"The current food-stamp program is a contributor to childhood obesity, diabetes and learning disorders," he told the Post.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Coffman, Westword's "Schmuck of the Week"] Reference

But neither the Dispatch nor the Independent notes that the Farm Bill of 2002 substantially expanded the food-stamp program.    From Wordnik.com.  [See No Evil] Reference

Minnesota officials failed in 2004 to win approval for a plan to stop food-stamp users from buying sweetened drinks and candy.    From Wordnik.com.  [City Details Soda Plan] Reference

Increases funding for the food-stamp program, allowing, for instance, jobless and childless adults to qualify for increased aid.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Money Woven Into Safety Net] Reference

The food-stamp program grows in the winter months when there are few-er warm-weather construction and agricultural jobs available.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welfare Booby Traps] Reference

Republicans like Robert Dole have long championed the food-stamp program because it successfully prevents malnutrition and hunger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welfare Booby Traps] Reference

food-stamp eligibility is significantly easier than the criteria for receiving welfare, so food-stamp assistance tends to rise first.    From Wordnik.com.  [Numbers] Reference

Department of Agriculture to allow the city to prohibit food-stamp recipients from using food stamps to buy sugary drinks such as soda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is it okay to spend food stamps on soda?] Reference

To pay for the new spending, the measure would cut off in March 2014 an expansion of food-stamp benefits enacted in last year's stimulus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Senate approves jobs bill to stop teacher layoffs] Reference

Federal food-stamp benefits represent money that is injected directly into the local economy, advocates say, via purchases at local stores.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fraying Safety Net Raises Risk Of Hunger] Reference

The institute is lobbying for expansion of the food-stamp program and unemployment-insurance benefits, measures popular with Hill Democrats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Business Seeks Share of Stimulus] Reference

An agriculture bill that would have increased aid and the food-stamp allotment has been knocking around Congress, where no one ever goes hungry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blessed Is the Full Plate] Reference

V.F. reporter-researcher Matt Kapp decodes this remarkably basic document, which makes a food-stamp application look like the Oxford English Dictionary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magazine: Politics and Power] Reference

In a contrived-for-TV turn of events, Suleman, a food-stamp recipient, had reluctantly accepted help from Angels in Waiting on the March 10 Dr. Phil show.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tina Dupuy: Hm. Both Pro-Lifers and Pro-Choicers Hate the Octomom] Reference

After imagining all his life that he would never, ever be anywhere near this desperate, an unemployed friend of mine recently went onto the food-stamp program.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anneli Rufus: Eating for Almost Nothing] Reference

Under the plan, every state will get a lump sum, with the cuts coming mostly through restricting eligibility for legal immigrants and from food-stamp reductions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington Washes Its Hands] Reference

Yet the U.S. Department of Agriculture has reported that as many as 2.9 million Californians who are eligible for federal food-stamp aid don't receive these benefits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fraying Safety Net Raises Risk Of Hunger] Reference

Roger Thurow/The Wall Street Journal An influx of stimulus cash into the food-stamp program has boosted business at Ed Kraklio's stand at the Davenport, Iowa, farmers market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boost in Food-Stamp Funding Percolates Through Economy] Reference