Republicans Claim Widespread Food Stamp Fraud. What’s Missing: Hard Evidence.

The US Department of Agriculture has spent the past week notifying people that the country is (allegedly) overrun by individuals who are fraudulently claiming SNAP benefits, while (allegedly) driving luxury vehicles.  “In just ONE state, 14,000 individuals receiving SNAP benefits were driving LUXURY VEHICLES!” Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins posted on X last week. The […]

This Southern California city has an issue with food delivery robots

You’ve probably seen them before: those little four-wheeled robots delivering food along sidewalks in communities across SoCal. Serve Robotics and Coco are the two largest companies operating the autonomous machines in the region; the Los Angeles Times recently reported that Serve had deployed more than 500 sidewalk delivery robots across 40 L.A. neighborhoods – up from just two neighborhoods in […]