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One out of every three Americans now receives some sort of government welfare, according to the US Census Bureau. The Bureau released new data this month showing that 109.63 million Americans — or around 35 percent of the population – ...

Food stamps are making the poor unhealthy by financing a diet of junk food that generates huge profits for giant corporations. That’s the conclusion of a disturbing new series by Washington Post journalist Eli Saslow. One real cause of the ...

With a cut in benefits set to go into effect, food stamps riots are being predicted for November – and the federal government could be preparing for it with an $80 million expenditure for armed guards. EBT benefits are being ...

Walmart store food shelves emptied quickly over the weekend after a food stamp glitch occurred, once again demonstrating the perilous nature of the nation’s food supply. The Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) system locked some low-income citizens out of their accounts, ...

In an attempt to curb childhood obesity rates, the US Agriculture Department has announced it will sweep through the over 100,000 public schools of this country and limit the fat, calorie, sugar, and sodium content of almost everything sold during ...

The American family is at its worst state in the history of the country. The intelligent and informed readership of Off The Grid News likely did not need a Pew Research Center report to alert them to the nationwide decline ...

The number of Americans on public assistance has hit an all-time high, and so has part-time and temporary employment. According to a new federal report detailed by Stuart Varney on Fox News, there are now 100 million Americans on at ...

Bipartisan cooperation is alive and well in Washington these days, and Speaker of the House John Boehner doesn’t like it very much. An unlikely alliance of conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats came together and defeated the bloated welfare measure known ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Jeff Sessions (R) of Alabama is demanding that the U.S. Department of Agriculture quit promoting the use of food stamps in poor and immigrant communities. Sessions cites USDA promotional programs aimed at recruiting new food stamp ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) believes the quickest and surest road to economic recovery is more in people’s pockets. More food stamps and unemployment check that is. When reporters at a Capitol Hill briefing asked Hoyer ...