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Orange and Blue Food Stamps Redeemed Here; We Are Helping the Farmers of America Move Surplus Foods

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This week on CounterSpin: Government-supplied food assistance has been around in various forms since at least the Great Depression, but never with the straightforward goal of easing hunger. 1930s posters about food stamps declare, “We are helping the farmers of America move surplus foods”; that link between agriculture industry support and nutrition assistance continues to this day—which partly explains why the primary food aid program, SNAP, while the constant target ([link removed]) of the anti-poor, racist, drown-government-in-the-bathtub crowd, keeps on keeping on. We talk with Christopher Bosso ([link removed]) , professor of public policy and politics at Northeastern University, the author of a new book on that history, called Why SNAP Works ([link removed]) : A Political History—and Defense—of the Food Stamp Program.

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, 1911

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, 1911

Also on the show: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire ([link removed]) of 1911, in which 146 mainly immigrant women and girls died, many leaping from windows to escape the flames, horrified New Yorkers and galvanized the workers’ rights movement. The October 11 unveiling of a monument to those who didn’t just die, but were killed that day, put many in mind of how much still needs to change before we can think of things like Triangle Shirtwaist as relics of a crueler past.

In 2015, CounterSpin spoke ([link removed]) with Barbara Briggs of the Institute for Global Labor and Human Rights ([link removed]) about Rana Plaza ([link removed]) , the 2013 catastrophe that killed more than a thousand workers in Bangladesh, in circumstances that in some ways echoed those of 102 years earlier. We’ll hear that interview again today.

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Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at some recent press coverage of Net Neutrality ([link removed]) .

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