Food Stamp Usage Spikes

March 31, 2008

Food stamp usage is expected to reach its highest level since the program was started back in the 1960s. The Congressional Budget Office projects that 28 million recipients will participate in the program in 2009 up from 26.5 million in 2007.

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Waffle House workers in Conyers, Georgia, are now on their third day of striking over what they call the company’s unfair policies. Led by the Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW), Waffle House employees are demanding an end to the mandatory “meal credit” deductions from their paychecks, along with better wages and improved working conditions.