The Obama Administration is proudly shattering welfare records with an astonishing number of people collecting public benefits long term, especially food stamps. Judicial Watch has reported in the past how out of control the government’s food stamp program has gotten under President Obama and the fraud and corruption that’s plagued it. How bad is it?

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The government’s food stamp program has gotten so out of control under President Obama that a United States senator is demanding an end to the madness, especially the administration’s aggressive promotion campaigns to recruit even more recipients. A record number of people—46 million and growing—already get food stamps from the U.S. government and many don’t

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has paid a Chicago-based firm hundreds of thousands of dollars to culturally transform the agency through diversity training that includes chants about America’s founding fathers being illegal immigrants. Records uncovered in the course of an ongoing Judicial Watch investigation show how the USDA is wasting taxpayer dollars as it

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The U.S. government keeps spending huge sums of taxpayer dollars to bring farmers markets into low-income minority communities the Obama Administration claims would otherwise not have access to healthy foods, including the president’s hometown of Chicago. It’s all part of First Lady Michelle Obama’s costly effort to revolutionize the inner city diet by providing affordable

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While the Obama Administration promotes food stamps like there’s no tomorrow, the rolls are already higher than ever and so is the sort of fraud and corruption that often accompanies an out-of-control government program. A record 46.3 million people—including some illegal immigrants—get taxpayer-funded food stamps at an annual cost of $76 billion, according to the

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The U.S. government’s minority cash giveaway for “discriminated” farmers has reached a new level, with an improved process that makes it faster and easier for Hispanics to get awards much larger than previously announced. The goal is to make amends to those who suffered discrimination when seeking farm loans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture

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In an amusing twist, food contaminated with deadly bacteria is being sold at a Washington D.C. farmers market right outside the headquarters of the government agency in charge of enforcing the nation’s food safety rules.It would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic. An open-air market sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) features

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Another U.S. government agency has joined the child obesity crusade, this time dedicating $25 million to tackle the epidemic in “hard–to–reach, limited English proficiency and minority communities.”This latest allocation of taxpayer dollars to this particular cause will help meet key goals set by Michelle Obama’s White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity. Last year the First

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