Neil Dubovsky: Food stamp challenge: Why we’re doing it

BY: Neil Dubovsky
POSTED: December 20, 2012
Tags: food stamp challenge, food stamps, Government, Law, neil dubovsky

My family and I are now approximately halfway through our week of living on a food stamp budget and so far, we all seem to be coping well. The biggest difference I have noticed to this point is that not only are we eating less frequently than usual, but that out of necessity we have [...]

Neil Dubovsky: Food stamp challenge – the importance of SNAP

BY: Neil Dubovsky
POSTED: December 18, 2012
Tags: food stamps, Law, maryland, neil dubovsky

Today is day 3 of my family’s participation in the food stamp challenge, and so far, so good. I will provide greater detail tomorrow, but as I stated yesterday, I want to devote today’s column to providing more information about the food stamp program itself and its importance.

Food stamp cuts worry farmers at markets

BY: Capital News Service
POSTED: October 8, 2012
Tags: capital news service, farmers, food stamps, markets

Farmers at the every-Wednesday market in Park Heights say they are already feeling the effects of cutbacks in federal food stamp programs.

Tatiana Nicolayeva, a Ukrainian immigrant, has been coming to her Park Heights neighborhood farmers market for years. She can buy produce at the grocery store down the block, but she prefers the farmers market, where she can double her food stamp value and buy more “special” produce, like watermelons and apple cider. “It is expensive [...]

House GOP unveils budget blueprint

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: March 20, 2012
Tags: baby boomers, blueprint, budget, Congress, food stamps, GOP, house, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, medicaid, pell grants, president obama, sen. ron wyden, senate, supercommittee, Taxes, united states

WASHINGTON — Conservative House Republicans on Tuesday set up what appears to be a potential re-run of last year’s turbulent domestic policy fight with President Barack Obama, putting forward an election-year budget manifesto that would blend steep social program cuts with reduced tax rates. The GOP plan released by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan [...]

University of Baltimore law students take the food stamp challenge

BY: Joe Surkiewicz
POSTED: December 12, 2010
Tags: food stamps, Homeless Persons Representation Project, law and poverty seminar, Law School, law students, low income, maryland, poor, University of Baltimore

Some University of Baltimore law students inadvertently put one foot in the real world last fall when they signed up for the Law and Poverty Seminar. In addition to reading case law related to poverty, they were required to get face-to-face with the poor. Or stomach-to-stomach. While some volunteered at homeless shelters and worked on [...]

At city markets, food stamps fill nutritional gap

BY: Capital News Service
POSTED: November 25, 2010
Tags: Baltimore, food stamps, groceries, health, John Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, maryland, Maryland Hunger Solutions, shopping, Waverly Farmers’ Market
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Senora Gray gives a quick scan before plucking three bunches of kale from a pile of fresh greens. She surveys the apples, yellow squash and green beans with similar speed. The only pause during her five-minute shopping excursion at the Waverly Farmers’ Market is when she asks about paying. At each vendor, Gray poses the [...]