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Food Stamp Cuts Force Recipients to Make Do with Less
Friday's $5 billion cut in the Food Stamp program raises questions. Can a family of 4 eat on $632 a month? Why are 48 million people on Food Stamps in the first place?
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenFriday's $5 billion reduction in the Food Stamp program raises a host of questions. Can a family of four get enough to eat on $632 a month? Why are 48 million people on Food Stamps in the first place? Does the federal handout encourage a "culture of dependency?" Also, Egypt's chaotic start to the Morsi trial, and how a film about cyclist Lance Armstrong called the The Road Back got a new title: The Armstrong Lie.
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3 storiesFood Stamp Cuts Force Recipients to Make Do with Less
Just 17 months since his election as President of Egypt and four months since his overthrow, Mohammed Morsi went on trial today in Cairo. In his first public appearance since being deposed, he was formally charged with inciting the murder of non-Islamist protesters. David Kirkpatrick is Cairo Bureau Chief for the New York Times .
Read the story8 minFood Stamps and the Politics of Hunger
Families with children, the elderly and the disabled are feeling the first cut ever in the Food Stamp program. Automatic reductions of $5 billion took place on Friday, cutting monthly benefits for 48 million people. For a family of four, that's a reduction of $36 a month, about $1.40 per meal.
Read the story37 minBehind the Scenes of 'the Greatest Fraud' in Sports
Alex Gibney is an Academy-Award winning director who was given unparalleled access to Lance Armstrong. His original project was a documentary film about the world-champion cyclist's training for an eighth Tour de France title after a four-year hiatus. Now a very different film is being released.
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