Food Stamps

Newark Mayor Cory Booker (file / credit: Mayor's Office)

Newark Mayor Booker Completes His Food Stamp Challenge

Newark Mayor Cory Booker has completed his challenge to live on food stamps for a week.

2012/12/11

Newark Mayor Booker Says He Forgot Caffeine For Food Stamp Challenge

Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker has been living on food stamps since Tuesday, and realized a couple of days in that he forgot to buy products with caffeine when he shopped for the weeklong challenge.

2012/12/09

Newark Mayor Booker Continues Food Stamp Challenge, Notes Difficulty Of Finding Healthy Food

Mayor Booker said he has quickly learned that it is hard to eat healthy on what averages out to just over $4 per day in food.

2012/12/06

Mayor Booker's breakfast featuring salad with chickpeas on Wednesday. (credit: Cory Booker via Instagram)

Mayor Booker’s 1st Food Stamp Diet Lesson: Plan Better

The Newark mayor said he forgot to buy caffeine products when he shopped Saturday for his week-long challenge.

2012/12/05

Cory Booker (credit: Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Bing)

Newark Mayor Booker Prepares For Week On Food Stamps

Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker’s week on food stamps will begin Tuesday, and he has prepared for the challenge with a grocery purchase of $27.98.

2012/12/03

Newark Mayor Booker To Live On Food Stamps For A Week Beginning Tuesday

Booker, who is vegetarian, will be limited to $1.40 for each meal for the duration of the challenge.

2012/12/02

Newark Mayor Cory Booker speaks at Democratic National Convention. (credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Newark Mayor Booker To Live On Food Stamps For A Week

Following a debate about the role of government on Twitter, Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker has accepted a challenge to live on food stamps for a week after Thanksgiving.

2012/11/21

Older, traditional food stamps later replaced by EBT (Electronic Benefits Transfer) cards (credit: File/Tim Boyle/Getty Images)

Food Stamps Available Next Week For Some N.J. Residents Affected By Sandy

Most low-income New Jersey residents affected by Superstorm Sandy may apply for emergency food stamps next week.

2012/11/19

President Barack Obama (credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/GettyImages) and Mitt Romney (credit: JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/GettyImages)

Fact Check Friday: Food Stamps

Mitt Romney said President Barack Obama caused a doubling of able-bodied people on food stamps by taking work out of the food stamps requirement. True, false, or something in the middle?

2012/09/28

Mitt Romney (Photo credit: NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/GettyImages)

Opinion: Romney’s 47% Don’t Pay Taxes Remark Is 100% Controversy

Romney thought he was talking amongst his teammates in the locker room last May 17 only to find out that there was somebody on the other team hiding behind the lockers. Had he known a member of the other team was lurking back there, he would have chosen his words more carefully and had presented more carefully-chosen data than the data of which he swiftly generalized.

2012/09/19

House Republican Leaders (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

GOP Leadership Protects Their Budget While Cutting Ours

Republican leadership talks about budget cuts. They talk about families hurting and making tough decisions. But when they come to Washington they protect their own budgets.

2012/06/13

Survey Finds More New Jersey Kids Living In Poverty

The Kids Count survey released today shows a sharp rise in the number of children whose families receive food stamps.

2012/04/24

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Michael Bloomberg (file / credit: Governor's Office, Spencer T Tucker / Mayor's Office)

Cuomo, Bloomberg At Odds Over Fingerprinting Food Stamp Recipients

Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to get rid of the requirement to fingerprint food stamp recipients and that is getting a big thumbs down from Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

2012/01/06

(Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

Poll Shows Households With Veterans In NYC Worried About Affording Food

The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion poll found that nearly one in three veterans in New York City were concerned they would have to turn to food stamps or government assistance.

2011/11/10

FILE - A man shops at a Food Bank in New York City. (Photo by Joe Corrigan/Getty Images)

Advocates: NYC Food Stamp Finger Printing ‘Doesn’t Make Sense’

City leaders are calling on the Bloomberg administration to stop finger printing New Yorkers who are seeking food stamps, calling the practice unnecessary and punitive.

2011/10/12

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