https://freerepublic.com/tag/foodstampbill/ en-us Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:00:50 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3084930/posts The fight over renewing the nation’s farm bill has centered on cuts to the $80 billion-a-year food stamp program. But there could be unintended consequences if no agreement is reached: higher milk prices. Members of the House and Senate are scheduled to begin long-awaited negotiations on the five-year, roughly $500 billion bill this week. If they don’t finish it, dairy supports could expire at the end of the year and send the price of a gallon of milk skyward. KLTV reports that the price of milk could reach $8 a gallon. “We are pretty much at the mercy of the... CBS https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3084930/posts#comment Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:00:50 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3028245/posts Almost 80 percent of the Senate’s proposed farm bill — a $955 billion measure — will be used to pay for food stamps in the coming decade. “The trillion-dollar farm and food stamp bill should not be called the ‘Farm Bill,” said Heritage Action for America CEO Michael Needham, to Breitbart. “Washington doesn’t want Americans to know that 80 percent of the spending in the bill goes to fund Obama’s big-government, food stamp agenda.” As for the remaining 20 percent? That goes for price supports for farmers — an “equally disturbing” federal disbursement, Mr. Needham said, in the Breitbart report.... The Washington Times https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3028245/posts#comment Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:51:03 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/750988/posts <p>In California and 18 other states, convicted drug felons — including poor mothers — are not allowed to receive food stamps. That policy could change in California, however, if Gov. Gray Davis signs a bill reopening the food-stamp program to drug felons if they are in drug treatment.</p> Washington Times https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/750988/posts#comment Sun, 15 Sep 2002 13:01:59 GMT