supplemental nutrition assistance program
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Maryland General Assembly should raise the minimum wage next year but resist the temptation to hand out election-year goodies -
- Millions rely on the SNAP program, yet Republicans propose to balance the budget on their backs
- In Howard County, we don't need five slim and uninviting markets. We need one big one, and not a daily option but weekly, so we come to plan our weekends around the event. Rather than have a market in every possible location, why not rotate the venues yearly, choosing beautiful spots around Howard County? And why not provide bus transportation for those without cars, the route being to each of our current farmers' markets?
- Government-backed nutrition programs key to reducing obesity rates
- With some of the most generous welfare benefits in the country, there are powerful incentives not to get a job in Maryland.
- The St. Clement twice-weekly food pantry, which is also open on Saturdays, has been in operation for about six years and has grown significantly in that time.
- Voter ID laws are essential to prevent fraud at the polls
- Congress should make nutrition and health a priority over farming conglomerates
- In an era of divided and gridlocked government, social welfare organizations may be the answer for solving problems like poverty and drug addiction.
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- Baltimore chefs say spare food stamp program from cuts
- Senators wrong to cut billions of dollars from the nation's food stamp program
- Some of Baltimore's best-known candy makers are pressing Congress to overturn a decades-old sugar policy they say is leaving a bad taste in their mouth.
