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Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed that HHS under former President Joe Biden’s administration had been a “collaborator in child trafficking,” sex, and slavery.

The newly unsealed complaint of the lawsuit filed by the New Mexico Attorney General against Snap, the company behind the Snapchat social media platform, reveals that employees were well aware of the app’s dangers to children, including sextortion, illicit gun sales, and addictive features.

Massachusetts welfare recipients have been using their EBT cards while on tropical vacations to Hawaii, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and other trips thousands of miles away from their home state, an investigation by the Boston Herald revealed. 

On Friday’s edition of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-IL) argued against cuts to SNAP benefits because “people are aching” due to inflation, but argued that’s not Joe Biden’s fault and there were supply chain issues. After discussing crop

Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst introduced a bill to reduce spending by nearly $1 billion a month by lessening taxpayer expenses for payment errors under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as Food Stamps.

Uber Eats announced it will soon accept food stamp benefits for grocery delivery to reduce “barriers” to healthy food, Fox Business reported.

Snap, the parent company of the popular Snapchat social media app, recently reported disappointing fourth-quarter earnings due to ongoing issues with digital ads. The company also forecasted a drop in revenue of up to 10 percent for the upcoming quarter.

Speaking at the Code Conference in Los Angeles, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel gave his thoughts on how China-owned TikTok has dominated the online video market in such a short space of time. Spiegel explained how Communist China has overpowered social media through seemingly unlimited spending, saying: “What nobody had anticipated in the United States was the level of investment that ByteDance made into the U.S. market, and of course in Europe, because it was just something that was unimaginable — no startup could afford to invest billions and billions and billions of dollars in user acquisition like that around the world.”

Social media giant Snap reportedly made an “error” that gave leading Democratic campaigns and party committees access to a huge repository of Republican voter data, allowing them to tailor their midterm ads.

Snap, the company behind social media platform Snapchat, is laying off approximately 20 percent of its more than 6,400 employees, according to sources.

A North Carolina woman was recently arrested for allegedly committing food stamp fraud after receiving benefits of over $15,500.

Outages were reported on Sunday by participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) who were unable to use their electronic benefits transfer (EBT) cards to buy groceries at stores in some states.

Snapchat’s parent company Snap is reportedly in the early stages of planning layoffs, according to two sources.

Snap, the parent company of social media platform Snapchat, suffered a 36 percent drop in share price in intraday trading on Friday following the release of the company’s poor second-quarter results and the announcement of plans to slow hiring. The Silicon Valley company has lost almost two-thirds of its market value in 2022.

Social media giant Snapchat suffered a huge 43 percent drop in its stock price on Tuesday after the company’s CEO warned of a continually deteriorating online digital advertising environment.

In a recent interview, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel criticized Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse as “ambiguous and hypothetical.” According to Spiegel, “people really enjoy spending time together in reality.”

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack stated that the Biden administration is “trying to help people deal with the consequences of rising prices, whether it’s increasing the SNAP benefit or whether it’s making sure that the child tax credit is available to folks or whether it’s rebuilding the infrastructure of this economy” to fix supply chain issues.

The Biden administration is permanently increasing food stamps, or SNAP, by 25 percent for some 45M recipients.

The Biden administration will announce on Monday the introduction of a taxpayer-funded summer food program that would feed an estimated 30 million low-income Americans.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband, Douglas Emhoff, made his first official appearance as second gentleman in northeast Washington, DC, on Thursday to put a spotlight on “food insecurity,” a phenomenon taking place just miles away from the couple’s luxurious vice presidential residence.

The FTC has ordered nine of the largest technology companies in the world to disclose data about their operations and business practices. Amazon, Facebook, Reddit, Snap, Twitter, and Google parent company Alphabet are amongst the companies at the center of the FTC’s investigation.

Michigan residents with two or more felony drug convictions on their record could no longer face a lifetime ban from receiving food stamps through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

An additional 5.9 million people in the United States are on food stamps since the coronavirus pandemic began in March 2020, according to the latest data from the USDA.

Payment errors for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) cost U.S. taxpayers over $4 billion in 2019.

Wealthy American corporations are using their money to signal they support the protests taking place across the country in the wake of a black man’s death at the hands of police in Minneapolis on Memorial Day.

The National Restaurant Association reported that the U.S. restaurant industry will suffer $80 billion in revenue losses by month’s end.

Democrat Stacey Abrams teamed up with former 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Andrew Yang on Tuesday to promote a program that would provide $1,000 each in direct cash payments to 100,000 families receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.

Amazon announced this week that it has been approved by the Department of Agriculture to accept food stamp benefits in seven states. The announcement comes at the same time as Amazon’s stock is soaring — last week the stock jumped more than five percent in one day, increasing CEO Jeff Bezos’ net worth by $6.4 billion in a single day. 

Why not use this crisis as a way to attack both immigration enforcement and recent actions by the Trump administration to ensure that immigrants demonstrate self-sufficiency and not rely on public welfare programs?

The court has set an August 10 trial date for a Louisiana man accused of committing a $1.2 million food stamp fraud operation with two others.

An Obama-appointed federal judge blocked a Trump administration rule that would have tightened work requirements for food stamps, citing the coronavirus pandemic as the reason she made her decision.

Forty-four people in Pennsylvania were charged with welfare fraud throughout the month of January, according to Pennsylvania’s Office of the State Inspector General (OSIG).

Two former Somali specialty market owners in Columbus, Ohio, are facing more than $10 million in food stamp fraud charges, authorities say.

Approximately 6.1 million individuals dropped off the food stamp rolls since President Donald Trump’s first full month in office in February 2017, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) raged over requiring welfare applicants to fill out multiple forms during a House Oversight hearing on Thursday and questioned the impact the practice has on eligibility.

Fact check – CLAIM: President Donald Trump used his State of the Union address to “brag” about “taking away food stamps.” VERDICT: FALSE. Trump boasted about economic growth and job opportunities for the poor.