They’ve gone dark: Afghans who helped the U.S. military, trained as American-style journalists and rode the wave of women heading to higher education are destroying the diplomas, transcripts and résumés that prove how they built civil society in the country that the U.S. has left behind.
VIDEO: “Living on the minimum” shows reality of living on food stamps
STOCKTON, Calif. — Student journalists at Amos Alonzo Stagg High School walked the talk of food stamps by creating two teams of student reporters to see how far the weekly average of $56.60 could stretch. The amount “seems like a lot, but in the end it boils down to $8 a day,” not enough to keep students well-fed and focused, said Phillicity Uriarte-Jones, editor-in-chief of the Stagg Online. See more of Stagg’s experiment in this video.
—Featured photo: A store sign in St. Louis, Missouri in October 2013 welcomes shoppers who use food stamps. In June 2017 President Trump proposed charging retailers a fee for accepting food stamps as payment from the poor and also proposed $191 billion in cuts over the next decade to the food stamp program. Photo by Paul Sableman on Flickr.com/CC BY 2.0.
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