[{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/Blog\/ID\/29\/news-from-around-the-country#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/Blog\/ID\/29\/news-from-around-the-country","headline":"News From Around the Country","name":"News From Around the Country","description":"Last week, we published an article talking about Jon Stewart\u2019s The Daily Show episode where he lampooned Fox News reporters for grossly misreporting information on food stamps.","datePublished":"2018-07-06","dateModified":"2018-07-29","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/author\/admin#Person","name":"admin","url":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/author\/admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e26111862ca029071a00a76fae48c51b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e26111862ca029071a00a76fae48c51b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"FoodStamps.org","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FS_Logo-2.png","url":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FS_Logo-2.png","width":600,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FS_Logo-2.png","url":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FS_Logo-2.png","width":100,"height":100},"url":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/Blog\/ID\/29\/news-from-around-the-country","about":["Congress Attacks Foodstamps","Foodstamp Tactics"],"wordCount":553,"keywords":["29"],"articleBody":"In a bit of a departure from the usual\u00a0Food Stamps\u00a0article format, we\u2019ll be taking a look at some of the headlines that have popped up, or responses to recent events in the last couple of weeks concerning food stamps.Jon Stewart Loses a FanLast week,\u00a0we published an article\u00a0talking about Jon Stewart\u2019s\u00a0The Daily Show\u00a0episode where he lampooned Fox News reporters for grossly misreporting information on food stamps. With his trademark zinging wit, he showed clips of reporters complaining SNAP recipients were buying cigarettes, iPads, gambling tokens, and chicken legs at Disney Land.Well, it appears that a columnist from the conservative website townhall.com,\u00a0Christine Rousselle, took issue with Stewart\u2019s show, calling it \u201chypocritical\u201d and that the \u201creal controversy\u201d is taxpayers\u2019 money being used by food stamps recipients to buy \u201cunhealthy food\u201d. It should also be noted that townhall.com occasionally\u00a0lends its guests to Fox News.Ohio Changes ScheduleWe also wrote before that\u00a0food budgets don\u2019t always last\u00a0until the end of the month, leading to a short period of famine-waiting until the next batch of food stamps comes out. One consequence of this cycle is really shortsighted thinking, where people spend what they have as soon as they get it because they don\u2019t know when the next surplus will come in.In Ohio, though, grocers have reported huge lines and food shortages at the beginning of the month when food stamps are sent out, and stores have to alter their employees\u2019 schedules. To counterbalance this, the\u00a0Ohio Department of Job and Family Serviceswill start a new schedule in April where recipients will get their benefits on a random date during the first 20 even-numbered days.Delawareans Need HelpIf food stamps are in use in a state, then neutral growth means the number of food stamps users is in direct proportion to the state\u2019s population growth. Positive growth means that as the population rises, food stamps recipients decrease in number.The opposite is happening in Delaware, and by quite a dramatic rate. In the last 10 years, the state\u2019s population has increased about 14 percent, and the food stamps population has tripled. A combination of job losses and bad luck has led to Delaware\u2019s food stamps usage growing 196 percent in the last decade, compared to the national average of 124 percent.To-may-to, To-mah-toThis is a quick lesson in why it\u2019s important to get your news from more than one source, as even one source can report the news in\u00a0three different ways.The recent news of New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut finding ways to get around the closing of \u201cHeat and Eat\u201d with the latest Farm Bill has been nicknamed \u201cCheat and Eat\u201d by the\u00a0Wall Street Journal, and \u201ca way to avoid the cuts\u201d by the\u00a0Washington Post.Go figure."},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Blog","item":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/Blog\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"ID","item":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/Blog\/\/ID\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"29","item":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/Blog\/\/ID\/\/29\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"News From Around the Country","item":"https:\/\/foodstamps.org\/Blog\/ID\/29\/news-from-around-the-country#breadcrumbitem"}]}]