Food stamp recipients can buy all the junk food they want, but they are prohibited from buying vitamins or nutritional items. The big banks like JP Morgan Chase collect billions of dollars a year off the transaction fees supporting the SNAP program.
The first of the PokÃ©mon games, Red and Green, were released in Japan on Feb. 27, 1996. The first episode of the PokÃ©mon cartoon aired in Japan on April 1, 1997.
Pinwheel (1977-1979) Nickelodeon was originally launched as Pinwheel on December 1, 1977 and was a local station on Warner Cable's Qube station that ran for 6 hours a day. Shows included Video Comicbook, Pop Clips, and Pinwheel. Pinwheel went national in 1979 thus Nickelodeon has declared that 1979 is the network's official launch year.