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WASHINGTON (AP) — About 3.1 million people would lose food stamp benefits under the Trump administration’s proposal to tighten automatic eligibility requirements for the food stamp program. The Agriculture Department said Tuesday that the rule would close “a loophole” that enables people receiving only minimal benefits from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program to […]

I guess when it comes to cracking down on takers, apparently Tennessee lawmakers like Stacy Campfield and Vance Dennis can’t see the greedy corporations for all the needy kids. But chances are their warped lenses on reality are obstructing their view. Not long ago Campfield, R-Knoxville, and Dennis, R-Savannah, introduced legislation that would tie families’ […]

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Insisting his only motivation is ridding the world of its “generational cycle of poverty,” a Tennessee lawmaker is nonetheless proposing legislation that could leave more children hungry and even more destitute in the here and now. Republican State Senator Stacey Campfield is seeking to tie state welfare benefits to student performance by mandating that state […]