{"id":28864,"date":"2011-10-20T17:02:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T17:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today_some_states_adding_assets_to_food_stamp_qualification\/"},"modified":"2011-10-20T17:02:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T17:02:55","slug":"usa_today_some_states_adding_assets_to_food_stamp_qualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28864","title":{"rendered":"(USA Today) Some states adding assets to food stamp qualification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How rich is too rich for food stamps? The answer depends on where you live.<\/p>\n<p>In Michigan, if you have $5,000 in liquid assets or a car or truck worth more than $15,000, you&#8217;re probably out of luck under new rules launched this month.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the state of Michigan began asking residents about their assets \u201d\u201d homes, cars, stocks, bonds, even lottery winnings \u201d\u201d in addition to income when they receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the formal name for food stamps.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/story\/2011-10-19\/food-stamps-and-assets\/50831586\/1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How rich is too rich for food stamps? The answer depends on where you live. In Michigan, if you have $5,000 in liquid assets or a car or truck worth more than $15,000, you&#8217;re probably out of luck under new<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28864\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,100,149,151,88,619,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-dietingfoodnutrition","category-economy","category-politics-in-general","category-poverty","category-state-government","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}