Average taxpayer helps support hidden cost of food stamps – Oregon Daily Emerald

ABC Action News Mom denied food stamps shoots kids, kills selfCBS NewsSAN ANTONIO – A Texas woman unable to qualify for food stamps for months walked into a state welfare office with a gun, then shot her two children and killed herself during a seven-hour standoff, officials said Tuesday. The children, a 10-year-old boy …Texas…

Advocates and officials are sounding the alarm after new numbers released Friday show fewer New Yorkers are receiving food stamps. More: continued here

Hearst Castle painting chosen as official Christmas stampKSBY, CAA painting that graces a wall at Hearst Castle will be the United States Postal Service's official Christmas stamp for 2009, according the Postal Service's Web site. "Madonna and Sleeping Child," created by Italian artist Giovanni Battista Salvi, …Hearst Castle painting to be USPS stampSan Luis Obispo Tribuneall…

Car lovers will likely be giving Jersey’s newest stamps their seal of approval.Jersey Post has issued another set in their ’Vintage Cars’ series.Included in the six designs is a 1912 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost and a 1933 Austin 7. Jersey Old Motor Club helped with the illustrations, which are all of locally owned cars and…

CNNMoney Stamp prices set to go down two cents in AprilCNNMoneyThe Post Office is practically begging Congress to let it keep stamps at 49 cents. It says rolling back prices to 47 cents will cost the already badly bleeding Post Office $2 billion a year. "Removing the surcharge and reducing our prices is an …Price…

fox8.com Ohio auditor: 36 dead people got food stamps, $29K spent out-of-statefox8.comCOLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Auditor Dave Yost will testify before Congress just days after reporting questionable costs in Ohio's food stamp program. The Republican is set to appear Wednesday before the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture. A $48,000 audit …Audit: Dead people got food stamps,…