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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
Jazmine Headley, center, joins attorney Brian Neary and her mother, Jacqueline Jenkins, outside a courthouse in Trenton, N.J. (AP/Mike Catalini)

How we punish working mothers

Amanda Marcotte
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Beyond the "work requirements" sham

Amanda Marcotte
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Treating patients on Medicaid

Audrey M Provenzano - The Conversation
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Why Medicaid requirements threaten lives

Meaghan LaSala - In These Times
Paul Ryan; Mick Mulvaney (AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Alex Brandon)

Why work requirements don't work

Ed Dolan
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Trump's requiring Medicaid users to work

Matthew Rozsa
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