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Stamp of approval. (Race and Recession).
President George Bush proposes a better food stamp benefit restoration policy for legal immigrants than the Senate Democrats in the Farm Bill. A Republican Senator from Indiana leads the fight for more money for the food stamp program and conservation programs while Senate Democratic leadership urges restraint. The conservative Republican chair of the House Agricultural Committee offers more money for the food stamp program, but the Senate Agriculture Committee chair, Tom Harkin, and Democratic Majority Leader Thomas Daschle reject it.
An alternate universe? Not quite, but these strange political twists are the result of a convergence of forces that makes the 2002 ...
- Immigrant food-stamp aid restored in farm bill.(NATION)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times April 27, 2002 700+ words
...Senate negotiators, as part of a deal on the farm bill, have agreed to restore food-stamp benefits to legal immigrants that were eliminated...alternative proposal that would have extended food stamp benefits to legal immigrant children and the...
- Michigan officials press for maintenance of Food Stamp Program in 2007 farm...
- Magazine article from: Policy & Practice June 1, 2007 700+ words
...administration's proposed 2008 federal budget and the 2007 farm bill both include cuts to the Food Stamp Program. Food stamps have become a staple for Michigan...assistance, which would affect almost 110,000 Michigan food stamp beneficiaries.
- EFTA EBT Industry Council Backs Significant Reform in the Food Stamp Program;...
- Press release article from: Business Wire March 8, 2002 700+ words
...significant changes in the food stamp program, and to...version of the pending Farm Bill. The Senate's...believes that the food stamp program improvements contained in the Farm Bill will lower barriers...groups supporting a Farm Bill containing a ...
- Farm bill changes succeed in adding legal immigrants to food stamp rolls.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Economic Opportunity Report December 6, 2004 700+ words
...provisions of the 2002 Farm Bill that opened up the food stamp program to more legal...a situation that the Farm Bill attempted to redress...Implementation of the 2002 Farm Bill's Legal Immigrant Food Stamp Restorations at www...
- Living on $3.50 each day for meals: Event aims to illustrate need for more...
- Newspaper article from: Times Union (Albany, NY) May 29, 2007 700+ words
...Congress to increase funding for the food stamp program under farm bill now being debated in Congress. Mohr...power of the average daily amount a food stamp recipient is allotted. Participants in the Food Stamp Challenge spend just $3.50 a day...
- Michigan Faces Fine over Food Stamp Program.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News April 30, 2002 700+ words
...proposed new federal rules for food stamp distribution may make it easier...Those rules are part of a new farm bill that is being debated in congressional...complicated system, and the food stamp simplification in the farm bill may help," she said. To...
- Food-stamp war looms in House.(A)(Nation)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Wetzstein, Cheryl September 2, 2001 700+ words
...and bigger funding. But the food-stamp program is likely to attract...their homelands. The House food-stamp provisions, which are contained...the Agriculture Committee's farm bill, increases food-stamp spending by $3.25 billion...
- USDA to make available $6 million in food stamp program grants.(United State...
- Magazine article from: Economic Opportunity Report February 16, 2004 700+ words
...awareness of USDA's Food Stamp Program for low-income...To improve access to food stamp benefits by eligible households, the 2002 Farm Bill authorized USDA to award...public agencies other than food stamp state agencies to conduct...
Source: HighBeam Research, Stamp of approval. (Race and Recession).