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Squeezed by inflation and politics, a Texas food bank gets creative to keep people fed

To help raise money, the Lubbock-area food bank recruited a Michelin-recognized chef.

The Texas Tribune

How the looming government shutdown will affect Texans

A federal shutdown would put thousands of Texans in financial precarity. Congress has less than a week left until the end of the fiscal year on Oct. 1, and a shutdown appears imminent.

The Texas Tribune

Texas lowers barrier for food stamps, but many still won’t qualify

A new state law increases what SNAP applicants’ vehicles can be worth before they’re disqualified for federal food assistance. But most states don’t take car values into consideration at all.

The Texas Tribune

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More Texans would qualify for food stamps under a bill heading to Gov. Greg Abbott

The value of a household’s vehicles disqualified nearly 55,000 people seeking federal food assistance in 2022. House Bill 1287 increases the threshold of car values that lead to SNAP applicants being denied aid.

The Texas Tribune

Lawmakers steer toward food stamp clash on work requirements

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers, as they work on the 2023 farm bill, are staking out positions on nutrition and food stamps — the Agriculture Department’s biggest single program and a perennial source of contention.

Tribune News Service

Lawmakers steer toward food stamp clash on work requirements - Roll Call

Food stamps are on course again to be a flash point in the farm bill as some Republicans want to add work requirements for recipients.

Roll Call

SNAP recipients will see a cut in food benefits starting this month

During the pandemic, Texans received extra money on their Lone Star cards through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, also known as food stamps. That extra money ends this month.

The Texas Tribune

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Every word judge said as he jailed 'monster' dad who murdered N'Taya Elliott-Cleverley

Nigel Diakite was accused of crying crocodile tears as he was locked up for life

Liverpool Echo

Boyfriend who killed young mum with skipping rope then claimed he didn't remember jailed

Nigel Diakite, then aged 19, strangled his partner to death with a skipping rope in bed at their home in Wavertree, Liverpool, while the couple's then four-month-old baby was sleeping in a cot next to them

Daily Mirror

Boyfriend 'strangled mum with skipping rope next to their baby'

Prosecutors say Nigel Diakite later 'confessed' to killing N'Taya Elliott-Cleverley but he now denies her murder and says he can't remember any attack

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