Discount chain Family Dollar is out with disappointing earnings.

Wal-mart, food stamps, and listener responses.

Watch this animation from Slate's video team to find out.

As real wages continue to decline, the food stamp economy keeps booming.

The biggest winners of the SNAP economy are the ones the government won’t tell you about.

The Farm Bill tried to cut about $8 billion from the food stamps program.

As a temporary increase in food stamp benefits expires, families and businesses prepare to get by on less.

Starting today, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly referred to as food stamps , will see a cut of $5 billion. Under the cuts, a family four will receive $36 less in benefits every month.

A 2009 extension of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, expires today.

Starting today, Americans will get less in foods stamp assistance. We talk to one of them.