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House Cements $187 Billion Cut to SNAP—But Hey, Free Chicken!

It has always perplexed me that the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP)—known colloquially as food stamps—doesn’t allow recipients to use the benefit to purchase hot food items at grocery stores. Bread, steak, fish, potato chips, bananas and nearly every other food

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House Cements $187 Billion Cut to SNAP—But Hey, Free Chicken!It has always perplexed me that the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP)—known colloquially as food stamps—doesn’t allow recipients to use the benefit to purchase hot food items at grocery stores. Bread, steak, fish, potato chips, bananas and nearly every other food
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