The farm bill, which includes the Food Stamp Program, is up for reauthorization. This past summer, some members of Congress and others took the Food Stamp Challenge, spending only $21 on food for ...

At least, that was the logic Monday. By making error-prone states pay more, Republicans said they wanted to nudge states to ...

Oregon food critic Ken Hoyt delivers an update on his state's Food Stamp Challenge. Participants in the challenge limit their individual food spending to just $3 a day to get a greater ...

The Senate parliamentarian has advised that a Republican proposal that would shift some food stamp costs from the federal ...

A Food Stamp Challenge That We All Can Help With. August 2, 2008. Marylanders are struggling to feed themselves.

We are participating in the food challenge to remind ourselves of this fact — that behind each $1.40 meal there is a human face, a human body yearning for sustenance.

Gwyneth Paltrow has apparently failed at the food stamp challenge. She quit after four days, she reports on her website, GOOP. But then, most everyone who takes the challenge does it wrong. The ...

I considered accepting the 2007 Food Stamp Challenge. I’ve had plenty of experience being broke, including four years in college when I lived on oatmeal, canned tuna and potatoes – lots of ...

Mario Batali, his wife and their two teenage sons are eating for a week on the equivalent of a food stamp budget in protest of potential cuts pending in Congress to the benefit program used by ...

Where to shop, that was the big question. A week of eating only what I can buy for $29 — the average amount allotted to a single person living on food stamps in America — means one port… ...

The challenge, which began last week, is a nationwide experiment in which participants live off of $35 worth of food for an entire week, the average amount of food per week a food stamp recipient ...

I originally went on food stamps because I was one of those people who existed in an odd liminal zone of poverty. While I had a small income from my graduate school assistantship, it wasn’t ...