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Program’s Purpose Provide nutrition to those who simply cannot afford to get the nutrition themselves. Electronic Benefit Transfer Card Income and assets requirements Blogspot.com
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Benefits Mentally and physically disabled Unemployed Refugees Large Families General poor Helps grocers and farmers survivingthestores.org Azcentral.com
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Problems EBT Card Abuse Funds carry over to next month Long-term users Foodista.com Theburningplatform.com
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Fraud Small Still $750 Million dollars per year
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Problems Continued Junk Food Obesity Lobbyists Bondingwithfood.wordpress.comPensitoreview.com Sugarshockblog.com
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Common Ground Feed the poor Help unemployed get back on their feet Supply nutrition to the poor and their children Wholefoodsmarket.com
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Mediation Limit carry-over funds Limit junk food purchases Raise average work week and funnel more individuals into existing training programs Bixbynursesregistry.com
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Mediation Continued Demand second form of I.D. Picture on the EBT card Limit or evaluate number of claims people can have for new cards Movethefood.org Uah.com
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Works Cited “Children and Hunger.” Iowa Food Bank Association. Online Article. 30 Oct 2012. Clark, J. “The History of Food Stamps.” eHow. Demand Media. Online Article. 30 Oct 2012. Cooper, Kelli. “Qualifications For Food Stamps in Iowa.” eHow. Demand Media. 28 Feb 2012. Online Article. 30 Oct 2012. “Food Stamp Eligibility- Iowa.” Work World. Virginia Commonwealth University. 1 Feb 2012. Online Article. 30 Oct 2012. Ori, Jack. “Do You Lose Food Stamps Left Over from the Previous Month?” eHow. Demand Media. Online Article. 30 Oct 2012. Planin, Eric. “Crackdown on Food Stamps Fraud: A $750M a Year Scam.” The Fiscal Times. 24 May 2012. Online Article. 30 Oct 2012. The Register Editorial. “Report Shows what is at Stake with Food Stamps.” The Des Moines Register. 22 Oct 2012. Online Article. 30 Oct 2012. “SNAP: Facts, Myths, and Realities.” Feeding America. Online Article. 30 Oct 2012. Tuttle, Brad. “Food Stamps: More Benefit to Big Food than the Poor?” Times: Business & Money. Wordpress.com. 9 July 2012. Online Article. 30 Oct 2012. “Welfare Spending Topped $1 Trillion in 2011, Study Shows.” Fox News. Fox News Network 2012. 18 Oct 2012. Online Article. 30 Oct 2012. Google Images. 13 Nov 2012. Search Engine. 13 Nov 2012.
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