An analyst from Lexus-Nexus Risk Solutions estimates that about $20 billion could be stolen over the next six months from SNAP. Linda says the government agencies giving out this money have done relatively little to prevent fraud. The new fraud environment is nothing like the fraud environment of five or 10 years ago, she says.
Russia’s arrest of a Wall Street Journal correspondent is heading toward a diplomatic crisis—and will certainly chill foreign reporting in the country. It is startlingly easy to siphon money out of America’s social-welfare programmes, but devilishly difficult to thwart those efforts without threatening needy families. And ChatGPT may make things up, but it does so fluently in more than 50 languages.
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