Paperless food stamps getting easier to use at farmers' markets

Over the past five years, states and the federal government, with help from nonprofit organizations, have made hundreds of thousands of debit-card terminals available at farmers' markets. Two years ago, Montana started a program to introduce terminals at 42 farmers' markets; in Iowa, the state gives wireless machines to farmers and pays all monthly fees associated with them. New Jersey started giving the machines to farmers this month.

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