Articles tagged with: food stamps
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Did you know that in L.A. County, certain “restaurants” accept food stamps? It is part of their Restaurant Meals Program that has been running since 2005.
For those that don’t know, food stamps (aka EBT) is generally only allowed for food products that must be prepared. So allowing benefits to be used at restaurants is a pretty radical shift in the program’s scope.
I put the word “restaurants” in quotation marks above because the participating…
[Fire roasted tomato and bleu cheese soup with a bacon apple and caramelized onion grilled cheese panini]
Candi Wilvang participated in the United Way Hunger Challenge with her family of three – Mom, Dad and ten year old son (with some help from her 20 year old son). Read about their experience below.
The challenge was an awesome experience for our family to take. I am the mother of two son’s ages 20 and 10. My oldest son Shattuck lives…
This week, over 250 community members are participating in the United Way of King County Hunger Challenge. We have been lucky enough to hear from some participants about how their first day went and some initial thoughts and reflections on the challenge. Read about Lauren Lutz’s first day below and sign up to take the Hunger Challenge:
“Today is my first day starting the United Way Hunger Challenge and I can already tell this is going to more difficult than…
Can you feed yourself for only $7 a day for five days? This is the maximum food stamp benefit for an individual.
United Way of King County’s Hunger Challenge is an exercise of empathy—to live in someone else’s shoes for one week and learn how you can help fight hunger in our community. You can choose to do the challenge with your partner or family.
Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, KOMO radio host Brian Calvert and the following food bloggers are already signed up to take…
On Sunday, the New York Times featured a wonderful frontpage article on a program very near and dear to our hearts here at UWKC: the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known colloquially as food stamps.
We’ve written a good deal about food stamps on this blog, especially with regard to our new Bridge to Basics program (which incidentally has just wrapped a highly successful pilot run). But I thought it worth highlighting this article for several reasons, as it chronicles national trends we’ve…
Now that we’ve dusted ourselves off from another wacky election season, many of us are now turning our focus to this joyous time of year where simply finding a parking space at the mall has been cause for celebration…But I find it interesting in talking to many of my friends that, this year, it’s different. And I guess it doesn’t surprise me. I mean, unemployment just hit double digits for the first time since the early 80’s. Of course it’s different.
So, what to do? …
After a successful test run this past summer at two stores in New York City, Costco Wholesale will accept food stamps at least half of its stores by Thanksgiving, including its 23 stores in Washington.
About 420,000 families receive food stamps in Washington, up 30 percent from a year ago.
Before the New York pilots, Costco execs were skeptical that any of their customers would use food stamps. However, the tests showed that they would if given the opportunity.
“The rules are different today,”…
I am a sucker for infographics and boy does GOOD Magazine produce solid infographics. They consistently take data and make it look awesome.
They recently graphed out the number of people who are using food stamps with interesting results.
(Aside: “Food Stamps” is a colloquialism. Nationally, the program is called SNAP and in Washington it’s known as Basic Food. For the sake of simplicity, I’ll be calling it Food Stamps)
Why More People Are…
It looks like Middlesex United Way is doing a hunger challenge similar to what we did here a few weeks back. I think it’s worth posting because, well, it really was challenging and those participating could probably use some support!
For their “Food Stamp Challenge”, they are trying to go through 7 days with only spending $3.50 a day(!). Why did they choose $3.50 a day as a their guide for the challenge? According to their website, it is to:
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It looks like Costco, seller of (sometimes ridiculously large) bulk products, is finally taking steps towards accepting food stamps.
They are testing food stamp acceptance in two New York City stores, which ideally will then carry over to the rest of the chain.
One of the reasons that Costco is making this shift is because other wholesale stores like BJ’s have already begun accepting food stamps at their stores.
Well, that and the fact that tons more people are on food…
