Representative Kristi Noem demonstrated her continuing contempt for the poor by voting for the House GOP's nowheresville food stamp bill yesterday. South Dakota's lone Congresswoman defends her vote with the usual false exaggerations of waste and fraud in the Supplemental…
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Just in time for Thanksgiving and Christmas, the federal government will cut food stamps. My friends at the South Dakota branch of Bread for the World note that the boost we gave the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in the 2009…
Unwilling to shoulder responsibility for her legislative failure, Congresswoman Kristi Noem is peddling the fantasy that President Barack Obama caused the House to vote down the Farm Bill yesterday: Noem told reporters that House leaders believed they had enough votes…
South Dakota's "Welfare for me but not for thee" Congresswoman Kristi Noem said that one of the big problems we need to fix in the Farm Bill is that "Right now we have millions of people that get food stamps…
An eager reader puts two and two together and comes up with outrage. The Senate passed the Farm Bill Monday, 66–27. Senator Tim Johnson voted for it, emphasizing the $250,000 cap on payments to farmers ($125K per farmer, doubled if…
Kristi Noem may see the political sense of getting rid of campaign money from convicted felons. Alas, she still wants to take money away from hungry people. Economist Reynold Nesiba and Rev. Anna Madsen of Sioux Falls submit the following…
Permit me to highlight two opposing schools of thought on Rep. Kristi Noem's failure to get the Farm Bill done for South Dakota. If you agree with South Dakota's lone Congresswoman that food is a national security issue and that…
In response to yesterday's post on Matt Varilek's proper support of food stamps (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, SNAP), I heard a Facebook commenter fulminate about the "crazy increase" in food stamp enrollment. Sure, more people are using food stamps,…