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.
The mobile augmented reality game PokÃ©mon Go was released in July 2016. The first seventh-generation games PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon were released worldwide on November 18, 2016. A live-action film adaptation based on Great Detective Pikachu is planned to start production in 2017.