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Scouring shoppers — deal pamphlets found at supermarket entrances — to maximize every penny of a tight budget in a territory ...
While Congress delays food-stamp funding, impoverished Puerto Rico residents have already started cutting back.
When the power first went out in Puerto Rico, some Puerto Ricans who opened food relief boxes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) found chocolate bars, cookies and potato chips ...
Despite approval this month from Congress and President Trump, Puerto Rico has not begun receiving $600 million in food stamp aid. That means less money for Myrna Izquierdo, who runs an HIV clinic ...
About 43 percent of Puerto Rico’s residents are grappling with a sudden cut to a benefit they rely on for groceries and other essentials. The federal government provided additional food stamp… ...
The Trump administration has not sent $600 million in emergency food stamp aid to Puerto Rico two weeks after President Donald Trump approved the funds, and the US territory does not expect to ...
The federal government provided additional food stamp aid to Puerto Rico after the hurricane, but Congress missed the deadline for reauthorization in March as it focused on other issues before ...
The agency will turn its remaining food and water supplies over to the Puerto Rican government to finish distributing.
Lower-income Americans generally get food assistance from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, but Puerto Rico was cut out of that system — then known as food stamps — in ...
NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- New York state will be sending additional aid to storm-battered Puerto Rico in the coming days. Newly elected New York Governor Kathy Hochul visited Puerto Rico to help ...
Hurricane Fiona is now a Category 3 storm. Mutual aid and nonprofits are providing on-the-ground relief for Puerto Ricans and others in the Caribbean.