Here’s an easy one. Fight hunger and boost the economy at the same time. We’re not talking about some loaves-and-fishes miracle. All Congress has to do is make permanent the temporary expansion of the food-stamp program included in the stimulus package last spring.

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Filed under: News It may come as a surprise to most that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s federal food stamp program authorizes the use of “food stamps” at restaurants. The restaurant food stamp program, however, has been in effect since 1974 for elderly and disabled patrons, and since 1992, for homeless people. The creation of “Restaurant Meals” under the USDA’s food stamp program began …

LANSING Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s latest budget proposal would hire hundreds of caseworkers to deal with rising demand for food stamps and to boost child welfare services in Michigan. It won’t be easy to find the extra money needed to hire the workers given the state’s budget problems. The state must hire more child welfare workers as the result of a federal lawsuit. Lawmakers today began …

LANSING — Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s latest budget proposal would hire hundreds of caseworkers to deal with rising demand for food stamps and to boost child welfare services in Michigan.

LANSING — Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s latest budget proposal would hire hundreds of caseworkers to deal with rising demand for food stamps and to boost child welfare services in Michigan.It won’t be easy to find the extra money needed to hire…