
U.S. Labor Sec.: Donald Trump’s Policies Are ‘Everything that Is Not America; I’m Thoroughly Offended’
U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez went after Donald Trump, saying that he is “the modern-day incarnation of the Know-Nothing movement.”

U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez went after Donald Trump, saying that he is “the modern-day incarnation of the Know-Nothing movement.”

The Obama Department of Agriculture sent a letter to Georgia’s social services agency Wednesday, warning that if the state refuses to grant food stamp benefits to Syrian refugees, it would be doing so in direct violation of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008.

The Obama administration has released an updated welcome guide for new immigrants in the U.S. featuring detailed sections about obtaining public benefits including food stamps, welfare, and Obamacare.

An undercover police investigation in Chicago has led to the closing of a grocery store and charges against its owner. According to Fox 32’s undercover operation, as well as undercover police, Uptown Grocery was not only selling groceries, but also running a

The owner of a Worcester, MA, convenience store has been arrested and charged with allegedly running a $3.6 million food stamp fraud scheme since 2010.

A government shutdown Oct. 1 could immediately suspend or delay food stamp payments to some of the 46 million Americans who receive the food aid.

On Wednesday, a major bust was made of a multi-million dollar food stamp fraud ring based in the Ohio counties of Butler and Hamilton.

Gallup explains its poll results in terms of an “improving U.S. job market,” at a time when a record 93,194,000 Americans were not in the labor force in April, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). In addition, though Gallup shows a 3.5 percent decrease in the percentage of blacks struggling to afford food, data released Friday by the BLS shows that the unemployment rate for African Americans was nearly twice the national average, and more than double the unemployment rate for whites last month.

Let me propose an idea for both sides in the poverty debate to consider: the true significance of work is not that it brings “dignity” to the poor, because they don’t consider themselves undignified now, and the welfare state goes to great lengths to reinforce that sense of entitlement instead of humbly accepting temporary charity. Work provides two concrete benefits more important than dignity: value and purpose.

The Obama administration is offering up to $3.3 million in taxpayer-funded grants to increase the use of food stamps at farmers markets. The grants are part of an ongoing effort by USDA to increase SNAP participants’ access to fresh, healthy food.

The practical and spiritual benefits of work and independence are undervalued in America today. It is better for the economy, and for the heart and soul of the individual, to work for $8 an hour than to be paid $12 an hour by the government to do nothing.

Gwyneth Paltrow confessed in her Goop newsletter Thursday that she cheated on her $29 Food Stamp Challenge after only four days. The 42-year-old actress accepted a challenge from celebrity chef Mario Batali last Thursday in which she was asked to

Gwyneth Paltrow announced Thursday she will be living on food stamps for one week.

Out of the 11,300 refugees in the U.S., 4,430 speak Arabic.

The Obama administration plans to spend more than $31 million to encourage food stamp recipients buy more fruits and vegetables.

Normally quarrelsome House Republicans came together Wednesday night and passed a boldly conservative budget that relies on nearly $5 trillion in cuts to eliminate deficits over the next decade, calls for repealing the health care law and envisions transformations of the tax code and Medicare.

While President Obama was in Chicago bragging about the strong economy, the Census Bureau quietly announced that one of every five children is on food stamps, up from one in eight when the president was elected.

The Washington Post’s Philip Bump learned the hard way what happens when one assumes something and posts it on social media. He received backlash for his ignorance of Michigan’s controlling party.

In a bizarre rejoinder to Breitbart’s report revealing that Michigan has more food stamp recipients than students, Washington Post blogger Philip Bump published an article Tuesday that, despite its best attempts, ended up supporting and confirming Breitbart’s original reporting—even as it revealed Bump’s own ignorance.

Michigan now has more food stamp recipients than it does public school students, an analysis of federal and state statistics by Breitbart News reveals.

Last week, Emad Khalil Karaein, Jawad Khalil-Ahmad Karaein, and Khader Khalil Karaein pleaded guilty for their roles in a food stamp fraud scheme at the Middle Eastern Market in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that cost taxpayers at least $1,278,700.