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'food stamps'

Trump's budget could hit Arkansas hard

If Donald Trump succeeds in cutting "entitlements" by $1.7 trillion, the impact will be felt particularly in poor states. In other words, Arkansas.
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Trump's triumph and the darker news back home

Donald Trump's trip to the Middle East has gone well so far, but back home news of more ethics issues and a punishing budget aren't so encourging.
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Bill to restrict food stamp purchases revived and made worse with photo ID requirement

Bentley's new amendment makes the bill even worse by also requiring beneficiaries to show a photo ID in order to use their SNAP card.

Bill to restrict food stamp purchases fails in Senate committee

The opposition of grocers such as Walmart and other business interests may have helped defeat the measure in the Senate committee today.
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Fake news: Food stamp users' soda pop purchases

Strong pushback to a New York Times report on the percentage of food stamps devoted to soft drink purchases.

Bill for healthy food stamp purchases approved in committee

Republican Rep. Mary Bentley got House Public Health Committee approval today for her HB 1035 to prevent use of food stamps for purchase of unhealthy food, a measure likely to prevent use of the supplemental nutrition benefit for soft drinks, candy and the like.
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Though Medicaid asset tests are prohibited, Arkansas plans a way around

The Arkansas crackdown on poor recipients of welfare programs is underway including a work-around of the prohibition of asset tests for Medicaid recipients.

Arkansas legislature convenes at noon today

The legislature begins amid tighter House security and the usual popularity for hot-button political topics.
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The new day: Government intervention at the grocery store

Who knew Republicans favored excessive government regulation and interference with individual liberty? See Rep. Mary Bentley's idea to limit how poor people may spend their food stamp dollars.

Republicans aim to impose new restrictions on food stamps

A gaggle of right-wing Republicans has filed a bill imposing limits on what products food stamps can be used for.
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Republicans take a stand... against a post office for Maya Angelou

Arkansas-born poet and Civil Rights activist Maya Angelou, who died in May 2014, was no stranger to controversy in life, often fighting for issues from women's rights to literacy. It would be interesting, however, to hear what she'd have to say about the nine Republican Congressmen who took to their ideological soapboxes to place symbolic votes against naming a U.S. Post Office in Winston-Salem, N.C. in her honor.

Governor declines waivers on food stamp benefits in high unemployment areas

The Arkansas News Bureau reports that some 5 percent, or 25,000, of the 500,000 Arkansans who received supplemental nutrition benefits (food stamps) could lose those benefits unless they get jobs, sign up for accredited job training programs or work 20 hours a week in volunteer toil. It won't be easy to get work in some counties that could still qualify for waivers for continued benefits that Gov. Asa Hutchinson has not chosen to seek.
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