EBT

SNAP recipients in Rhode Island can use their Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card to purchase food at Subway restaurants.

Massachusetts EBT/SNAP rules kept a New Bedford woman from buying a hot rotisserie chicken from Market Basket. I kid you not.

Massachusetts taxpayers are being played for fools.

There are currently no laws on the books in Massachusetts prohibiting the use of an EBT card to purchase marijuana products, medicinal or commercial. 54 percent of Massachusetts residents endorsed an initiative petition last Fall that legalizes the use, possession and even farming of limited amounts of marijuana...

How do middle class taxpayers and retirees feel when they see food stamp recipients buying more food off the public dole than they, themselves, can afford for their family? Check out On Your Mind, Monday, a by-product of Brian's Beat.

One of my producers recently commented that when he goes food shopping and spends $50, his refrigerator looks bare. Then he sees folks on food stamps with a full carriage and wonders how they're able to eat more than he, the contributor, to the EBT system...