PITTSBURGH, April 27 (UPI) -- Tough measures to prevent U.S. food stamp fraud are keeping legitimate prospective recipients out of the program, advocates say.
DENVER, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Officials in Denver say food stamps have become the newest form of aid sought by college students.
BOSTON, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Low-income families in Boston and Philadelphia on food stamps don't have the money to buy the cheapest food plan, researchers said.
MIAMI, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Florida officials report a 44 percent increase over the past year in the number of college students receiving food stamps.
NEW YORK, June 6 (UPI) -- A strip of three Brazilian postage stamps from 1843 sold for nearly $2.2 million in a New York auction, said Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries Inc.
WASHINGTON, March 31 (UPI) -- The Congressional Budget Office projects a record 28 million people in the United States will receive food stamps during the coming fiscal year.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Efforts to expand the U.S. federal Food Stamp Program have angered budget hawks who say it is expensive and deeply flawed. Last month, the House passed a bill that would add $4 billion in funding for the program, which has a budget of $33 billion.
NEW YORK, April 17 (UPI) -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is reportedly pursuing a federal waiver that would lower a barrier to food stamps.
NEW YORK, March 15 (UPI) -- New York has an estimated 700,000 residents eligible for, but not signed up to receive, food stamps, a lack that costs the city millions in federal aid.
NEW YORK, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Half of the 2 million people eligible for food stamps in New York City are not getting them, a group of city and state lawmakers reported.
