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  • Feds Dish Out $4 Million to Increase Food Stamp Usage at Farmers Markets

    05/02/2013 5:56:29 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 5 replies
    Cybercast News Service ^ | May 2, 2013 | Elizabeth Harrington
    The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is spending $4 million to increase the use of food stamps at farmers markets, claiming it is beneficial to the economy. As a record one-out-of-five households are on the benefit, the USDA says allowing food stamp use at farmers markets is a “win-win-win situation.” … The $4-million outreach is part of a two-year project that expires Sept. 20, 2013. With the funds, farmers markets can purchase equipment to accept EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfer) cards and wireless access in order to operate the equipment. Already, there are 2,091 farmers markets that accept food stamps, as...
  • Man refuses food over welfare cuts

    11/19/2012 12:56:36 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 41 replies
    TheLocal.de ^ | 19 Nov 12 11:48 CET | (The Local/jcw)
    An unemployed Berlin man who had his state welfare cut to nearly nothing is refusing to eat, in an attempt to make the government consider introducing a basic income. … He denies bringing the situation upon himself by turning down multiple job offers, saying that as a trained and experienced occupational therapist, it would be unthinkable to work in a badly paid, unskilled job. He turned down shifts at a call center for €7 ($8.96) an hour, calling it “slave labor”, while a job in the office of a temping agency would make Boes what he called a “slave master”,...