Food stamps are helping Georgia college students survive their rising tuitions and fees, and their shredded personal budgets.

Food stamps are helping Georgia college students survive their rising tuitions and fees, and their shredded personal budgets.

Food stamps are helping Georgia college students survive their rising tuitions, fees and shredded personal budgets.

In a nation where millions of families are struggling to get by, most people who depend on food stamps are white, and the vast majority are working or have just lost their jobs, according to government data and program administrators.

In a nation where millions of families are struggling to get by, most people who depend on food stamps are white, and the vast majority are working or have just lost their jobs, according to government data and program administrators.

HARRISBURG — Requiring an asset test of those applying for food stamps is impractical and harmful, said former Gov. Ed Rendell during a state Capitol appearance on Wednesday. Mr. Rendell, a Democrat who was succeeded by Republican Gov. Tom Corbett a year ago, offered a rare critique of the sitting governor.

By Brittany Alana Davis, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau Wednesday, January 25, 2012 TALLAHASSEE — Floridians could not use food stamps to buy soda, candy bars and other junk food under a bill that survived contentious debate among a Senate panel Wednesday. The bill would expand the list of items banned by the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The state would add new food …

In a nation where millions of families are struggling to get by, most people who depend on food stamps are white, and the vast majority are working or have just lost their jobs, according to government data and program administrators.

In a nation where millions of families are struggling to get by, most people who depend on food stamps are white, and the vast majority are working or have just lost their jobs, according to government data and program administrators.

HARRISBURG — Requiring an asset test of those applying for food stamps is impractical and harmful, said former Gov. Ed Rendell during a state Capitol appearance on Wednesday. Mr. Rendell, a Democrat who was succeeded by Republican Gov. Tom Corbett a year ago, offered a rare critique of the sitting governor.