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.
Outside Japan, Red and Blue were the first two PokÃ©mon games released simultaneously on different dates in different regions throughout 1998 and 1999. The first episode of the cartoon aired in the United States on Sept. 8, 1998.