Fraud taints state's FoodShare program
Thousands of people who receive publicly funded food assistance report losing their benefits card routinely - a sign investigators say shows many are cheating the state's $1 billion program. Some sell their Quest cards for cash. Others trade them for drugs. And that's not the only way the state's FoodShare program is being abused, an investigation by the Journal Sentinel has found. (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 4/25)