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Posts Tagged ‘food stamps’

This Week’s Greatest Hits on the Young & Hungry Blog

Posted by Tim Carman on Jul. 10, 2009 at 7:39 pm

During a week in which when we learned that the D.C. area had placed not one but two toques on the upcoming season of Top Chef, I'm pleased to report that Y&H readers were far more interested in the closing of an icon, Nathans in Georgetown. We are not, it seems, complete tools of the [...]

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FRESHFARM to Double Value of Food Stamps to Break the Yuppie Stranglehold on Farmers Markets

Posted by Tim Carman on Jul. 7, 2009 at 6:35 pm

The headline is tongue-in-cheek, but it's also true: How many low-income folks do you see shopping at local farmers markets? The question is particularly relevant in D.C., where, according to the Mayor's Office, 105,751 residents are food stamp recipients. How many of them do you think shop at the Dupont Circle market when they have [...]

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