Montana’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will begin sending its February payments, worth up to $1,751, on Friday. SNAP payments in Montana are distributed over five days each month, beginning on the second. February’s benefits will be disbursed from Friday to Tuesday. The dates recipients receive their payments depend on their SNAP case number, account number, Social Security number, or last name. Household […]
New Jersey low-income residents will receive their February payments from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program over the next four days. Food stamps will be sent out from Feb. 1-5 to all households participating in SNAP. The average payment per household member per month in the Garden State is $179. Approximately 857,300 people, or 9% of New Jersey’s population, […]
President Joe Biden received a win for his economic agenda this week from an unlikely source — the Republican-led House of Representatives. A bipartisan coalition of Republicans and Democrats overwhelmingly passed a $78 billion bill that expands the child tax credit and renews key business investment deductions. The bill was negotiated between House Ways and […]
Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) raised over $3 million in 2023 with no assistance from super PACs as he prepared to battle Republicans in the only New York swing seat in the Empire State that has Democrats worried. Ryan’s campaign said in a release that he raised nearly $3.2 million last year thanks to donations from […]
Hawaii households will begin receiving payments from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Friday. SNAP-participating households in the Aloha State receive benefits on the 3rd and 5th of the month, one of the shortest payment periods. A household’s payment date depends on the first letter of the recipient’s last name. About 169,000 people, or 12% of the population, […]
The legal counsel for Bryan Kohberger, who is accused of murdering four University of Idaho students, filed a motion to move the location of the trial out of Latah County, claiming that the court will be unable to put together an impartial jury. “A fair and impartial jury cannot be found in Latah County owing […]
Competing legislative proposals in Virginia, endorsed by different gambling companies, would encourage an increase in slotlike betting machines at truck stops, restaurants, and convenience stores statewide. At the heart of the controversy is the “gray machine,” an arcade-style game that appears similar to slot machines but involves an element of skill, manufacturers say. Deemed “unregulated, unauthorized, […]
Investors are pushing back the timeline for when they expect the Federal Reserve to begin cutting interest rates after Fed Chairman Jerome Powell addressed speculation of a coming pivot. The Federal Reserve held its first meeting of 2024 this week and opted once again to hold its interest rate target steady at 5.25% to 5.50%. […]
The Oregon Supreme Court ruled Thursday that 10 Republican state senators are prohibited from running for reelection after participating in the longest walkout in state history, making one-third of the chamber ineligible for reelection. Last year’s six-week walkout was an effort to boycott Democratic-proposed bills on abortion, transgender healthcare, and gun control that the GOP […]
An asteroid the size of two football fields will pass within 1.7 million miles of Earth on Friday at 11 miles per second. Although the 890-foot asteroid, “2008 OS7,” qualifies as possibly hazardous in space terms, officials assured there is no possibility of collision with the space rock, named after the year it was discovered, […]
