{"id":3112,"date":"2014-09-17T19:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T23:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/11\/fifty-years-after-food-stamps\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T17:46:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T22:46:21","slug":"fifty-years-after-food-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/fifty-years-after-food-stamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty years after food stamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14157\" style=\"width: 189px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/sean-orourke.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14157\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14157 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/sean-orourke.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Sean O'Rourke\" width=\"179\" height=\"250\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 179px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 179\/250;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Sean O&#8217;Rourke<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Since President Lyndon Johnson signed the Food Stamp Act into law 50 years ago, it has helped reduce childhood hunger and malnutrition, created a support system for not only the working poor but also seniors and disabled people, and provided many with the reinforcement they needed to attend school and job-training centers. But, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s latest statistics, 48 million Americans don\u2019t know where their next meal is coming from or how they will pay for it. In an op-ed he co-authored for <b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/contributors\/2014\/09\/13\/years-food-stamps-sc-hungry\/15533403\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/i><\/b>, Furman communication studies professor Sean O\u2019Rourke examines the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since President Lyndon Johnson signed the Food Stamp Act into law 50 years ago, it has helped reduce childhood hunger and malnutrition, created a support system for not only the working poor but also seniors and disabled people, and provided many with the reinforcement they needed to attend school and job-training centers. But, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s latest statistics, 48 million Americans don\u2019t know where their next meal is coming from or how they will pay for it. In an op-ed he co-authored for\u00a0<b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/contributors\/2014\/09\/13\/years-food-stamps-sc-hungry\/15533403\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/i><\/b>, Furman communication studies professor Sean O\u2019Rourke examines the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":13689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-communication-studies","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}