House committee urges action on food stamp fraud, By Pam Fessler, March 8, 2012, National Public Radio: “With more than 46 million recipients, the food stamp program has become one of the government’s biggest benefit programs. It has also become one of the biggest targets for those who think the federal government isn’t doing enough to prevent fraud. At a Thursday hearing in Washington, lawmakers complained that some retailers who illegally deal in food stamp benefits have been allowed to stay in the program…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty