Food Stamp Vitamin/Mineral Supplement Study Urged In Senate Farm Bill
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
A report on the effects of allowing vitamin and mineral supplements to be purchased with food stamps would be required as part of an amendment to the farm bill introduced in the Senate Dec. 11
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