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Thousands of Arkansans Lose Food Assistance

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Arkansas Department of Human Services

Healthy single adults between the ages of 18 and 50 in Arkansas with no dependents who’ve relied on USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP will no longer receive food assistance if they are not employed or in a job training program. The new rule aims to get more welfare-dependent recipients off the dole and into the workforce. 

Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.
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