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Food Stamps: A flourishing racket feeds on the down and out
Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports on a flourishing black market for food stamps, where buyers offer money, drugs, alcohol or guns in exchange for food stamps; the Secret Service has primary responsibility for enforcing laws against food stamp trafficking, but does little to stop it, March 10, 1987.