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City Room: City Ban on Food Stamps for Sodas Is Rejected

Federal officials rejected a proposal to bar New York City’s food stamp users from buying soda with their benefits.

 

USDA urges California to end food stamp cash-out

Some argue that the state's policy is shortchanging some welfare recipients. But ending the policy could cost some current recipients their benefits, state officials and advocates for the poor say.

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