food stamps

It was on this day in 1959, when congress passed a bill to issue food stamps to low-income families.

North Dakota is the neediest state in America. At least that's what the most recent update to the Human Needs Index shows according to a press release put together by the Salvation Army and the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.

On Saturday, two Louisiana Walmart stores had their grocery shelves cleaned out by food-stamp recipients whose benefit cards briefly had their spending limits removed. Walmart may end up footing most of the bill because it chose not to implement emergency procedures that would have stopped all purchases at $50.