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3 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

4 Benefits  Mentally and physically disabled  Unemployed  Refugees  Large Families  General poor  Helps grocers and farmers survivingthestores.org Azcentral.com

5 Problems  EBT Card Abuse  Funds carry over to next month  Long-term users Foodista.com Theburningplatform.com

6 Fraud  Small  Still $750 Million dollars per year

7 Problems Continued  Junk Food  Obesity  Lobbyists Bondingwithfood.wordpress.comPensitoreview.com Sugarshockblog.com

8 Common Ground  Feed the poor  Help unemployed get back on their feet  Supply nutrition to the poor and their children Wholefoodsmarket.com

9 Mediation  Limit carry-over funds  Limit junk food purchases  Raise average work week and funnel more individuals into existing training programs Bixbynursesregistry.com

10 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

11 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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