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Snap Inc., the parent company to Snapchat, has reported that its quarterly loss “nearly quadrupled,” as user growth and revenue growth have started to slow.

More than 1.1 million Americans dropped off the food stamp rolls since President Trump took office in January 2017, according to the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) statistics on food stamp enrollment.

Participation in the food stamp program took a dive to the lowest level it has been in seven years, according to new data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

The number of Americans enrolled in the food stamp program has dropped nationwide as a result of an increase in states requiring food stamp recipients to work to receive benefits.

Amazon is offering discounted service on its Amazon Prime service to people receiving food stamps or other forms of government assistance.

Illegals in San Francisco have begun abstaining from food stamps as a way to avoid being detecting by the Trump administration.

Millennials who rushed to buy shares of the company behind Snapchat lost a lot of money this week.

Millions of dollars in food stamp fraud have been discovered in southwest Florida, according to an investigation by WBBH.

Immigrants are canceling their food stamps over fears they could be deported.

The owners of a deli in Louisville, Kentucky, have been sentenced Tuesday to more than a year in prison for food stamp fraud.

In another sign of how Silicon Beach is winning the geek culture war with Silicon Valley, the Snap, Inc. stock price is up 60 percent in its second day of trading versus Facebook IPO shares price crashing by 47 percent in the first three months after their IPO.

Snapchat’s parent, Snap Inc., completed the largest initial public offering in the history of Los Angeles County by raising $3.4 billion in cash on a $24 billion market valuation of the Silicon Beach company on Wednesday.

With the highly anticipated Snap, Inc. initial public offering (IPO) set to raise about $3.2 billion on March 1 by pricing shares at the high end of their expected range, a new report reveals that young social media consumers prefer Instagram, and millennial parents ages 45-to-54 are Snapchat’s only growth demographic.

A former Ohio convenience store owner was sentenced to 33 months in prison Friday for $2.8 million in food stamp fraud, WKBN reported.

Started by two roommates in a Stanford dorm in 2011, Snapchat’s parent, Snap, Inc., filed with the SEC last week for a $3 billion initial public offering (IPO), but admit the company may never make a profit.

A New Jersey man pleaded guilty Monday to a food stamp fraud scheme that defrauded the government of more than $800,000.

The Obama administration is allowing welfare recipients to use food stamps for online grocery purchases in a new pilot program.

Despite 2016 being the worst year for initial public offerings (IPOs) since the 2007-8 financial crisis, Silicon Valley hopes the Trump rally will bring back the good times.

An Arkansas lawmaker is proposing a bill in the state’s legislature that would “ban people in the state from purchasing junk food with their food stamps.”

Bloomberg reported Wednesday that the social media juggernaut Snapchat has filed to go public at the jaw-dropping valuation of up to $40 billion.

A New Jersey grocery store owner was sentenced to two years in prison for stealing $1.2 million in a food stamp scheme.

Snapchat has released its new “Spectacles” sunglasses as a disruptive creator of much more personal video sharing experiences.

A Wisconsin woman and her son are accused of stealing $3 million in food stamps benefits from the federal government, according to court records.

As the number of Americans on food stamps grows, so, too, do fraud and abuse. Food stamp “trafficking,” in particular, has grown so much that 140 stores in Chicago’s inner city have been cited for food stamp fraud, many of them shut down as a result.

A single-digit error rate might look good on paper, but for federal programs with budgets hovering around 70 billion even a relatively low improper payment rate has high dollar consequences.

Alabama’s new policy requiring able-bodied adults to work at least 20 hours a week has cost nearly 35,000 people their food stamps benefits.

Ajit Pai, one of the two Republicans on the five-member FCC, says a $51 million fraud investigation into the Lifeline cell-phone welfare program was kept hidden until after a key vote to expand the program was held.

Mississippi’s new policy requiring food stamps (SNAP) recipients to work or volunteer at least 20 hours a week has resulted in an increase in the number of people volunteering.

A new bill introduced in the House of Representatives would, if passed, allow for drug testing of food stamp recipients going forward.

The fastest-growing category of food stamp users under President Obama has been among able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs), according to Heritage Foundation senior research fellow Robert Rector.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.