Federal official says LePage’s threat puts food stamps at risk, By Eric Russell, June 22, 2016, Portland Press Herald: “A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture warned Wednesday that if Maine Gov. Paul LePage follows through with his threat to halt the state’s administration of the food stamp program, nearly 200,000 Mainers could go without benefits. Matt Herrick said in an interview Wednesday that LePage’s recent suggestion that he could either ban food stamp recipients from purchasing sugary drinks and candy without federal approval or end the state’s oversight of the program could be catastrophic…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty