eating on $21 a week in oregon

Posted by Meg

The Governor of Oregon tried his hand at eating on $21 a week in food stamps, the average alotted to an Oregonian by the federal government.

The NY Times reports that his experiment had to do with the Farm Bill, which stands to cut 50,000 people in his state from the food stamp program. (This is not an election year for the Gov.)

You’ll be hearing a lot of out of me with relation to the Farm Bill in the next month because it irks me. Almost all of it. Check out our link to the USDA’s Farm Bill site in the blogroll, and stay tuned.

Read more May 1st, 2007