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.
1 The first full-length episode of Oobi aired on April 7, 2003. Moose and Zee, Noggin's former hosts, were introduced on this same day.  Josh Selig, the creator of Oobi, was inspired to create the show after watching puppeteers in Poland perform with their bare hands.