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Social misery in the Age of Trump

Chauncey DeVega
A grocery store with sign in the window accepting Electronic Benefit Transfer cards and food stamps in St. Paul, Minnessotta. (Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Stop asking who’s “winning” the shutdown

Chauncey DeVega
A sign alerting customers about SNAP food stamps benefits is displayed at a Brooklyn grocery store on December 5, 2019 in New York City, United States. (Photo by Scott Heins/Getty Images)

MAGA salivates at cutting food stamps

Sophia Tesfaye
MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA - FEBRUARY 22: Rachael Ray performs a demo at the Grand Tasting Village during the 2025 South Beach Wine & Food Festival on February 22, 2025 in Miami Beach, Florida. (Jason Koerner/Getty Images)

Rachael Ray takes on Congress

Joy Saha
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After a full month since a major food shopping trip had been taken, the refrigerator at the home of Raphael Richmond was near empty. Richmond and her six children adjust to the recent cut in their food stamp (SNAP) allotment. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Food stamps, redefined by red states

Francesca Giangiulio
A cashier and customer at the checkout line of a supermarket (Getty Images/Antenna)

New SNAP rules cause further suffering

Christopher D. Cook, Teresa Ghilarducci - Common Dreams
Woman at the grocery store standing in front of products (Getty Images/d3sign)

Alaska's big food stamp payment problem

Joy Saha
Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., speaks during a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center on Wednesday, January 11, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

GOP bill targets food aid for the poor

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
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Empty shopping cart in front of a red wall (Getty Images/Christian Adams)

America's looming "hunger cliff"

Ashlie D. Stevens
Meat products displayed at supermarket. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Iowa GOP wants SNAP ban on fresh meat

Samaa Khullar
An employee of McDonald's wearing a protective mask as a precaution during the Covid-19 pandemic. (Getty Images)

Study: Big Biz subsidized by food stamps

Igor Derysh
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue looks on during a briefing on the coronavirus pandemic in the press briefing room of the White House. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Judge rejects Trump plan to cut food aid

Igor Derysh
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (Getty/Tom Brenner)

GOP wants to up tax break for biz meals

Igor Derysh
U.S. President Donald Trump (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

USDA fights to gut SNAP during pandemic

Igor Derysh
President Donald Trump holds up an executive order to streamline the approval process for GMO crops, as Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue (R) claps following a speech by the president at the Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy ethanol plant in Council Bluffs, Iowa on June 11, 2019. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty)

Trump moves forward with SNAP rule

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
A sign noting the acceptance of electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards that are used by state welfare departments to issue benefits is displayed at a grocery store on December 04, 2019 in Oakland, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Tracing SNAP’s origins

Tracy Roof - The Conversation
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A sign alerting customers about SNAP food stamps benefits is displayed at a Brooklyn grocery store on December 5, 2019 in New York City, United States. (Photo by Scott Heins/Getty Images)

How AI algorithms punish the poor

Michele Gilman - The Conversation
Donald Trump (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump wants to expand tax cuts for rich

Igor Derysh
US President Donald Trump speaks during a "Keep America Great" campaign rally at the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire, on August 15, 2019. (Getty/Nicholas Kamm)

NJ: Our nation’s enduring divides

Robert Hennelly - InsiderNJ
Donald Trump (Getty Images/Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Jewel Samad)

It's winter in America

Bob Hennelly
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A sign alerting customers about SNAP food stamps benefits is displayed at a Brooklyn grocery store on December 5, 2019 in New York City, United States. (Photo by Scott Heins/Getty Images)

New SNAP rule will punish the hungry

Jim Pugh - In These Times
Brooklyn residents receive free food as part of a Bowery Mission outreach program on December 5, 2013 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The Christan ministry says it have seen a spike in need since food stamps to low-income families were reduced in November with cuts to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). (John Moore/Getty Images)

New rules may strip food stamps for 3.7M

Igor Derysh
In this Friday, March 17, 2017 photo a sign advertises a program that allows food stamp recipients to use their EBT cards to shop at a farmer's market in Topsham, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) (AP)

"SNAP saves lives"

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
Bernie Sanders (Getty/Saul Loeb)

Sanders condemns Trump food stamps plan

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
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