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  • AGs sue to preserve food stamp funding

    BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell co-led more than two dozen states Tuesday in suing the Trump administration over its refusal to fund food stamps during the federal government’s shutdown.

    In the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Boston, Campbell and other Democratic attorneys general ask a federal judge to force the White House to tap emergency reserve funds to prevent roughly 42 million Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients from losing their food benefits beginning next week.


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  • Federal shutdown impact NH being assessed

    The state has almost 10,000 residents who are federal workers, and many will be working without pay, laid off or perhaps terminated due to the federal government shutdown this week and statements from the White House.

    U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, is among others who have introduced three bills aimed at emergency financial relief.


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