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NJ mayor's 1st food stamp diet lesson: Plan betterSan Francisco ChronicleOn Day 2 of living on the equivalent of food stamps, Booker said on a video posted Wednesday on LinkedIn he forgot to buy caffeine products when he shopped Saturday for his weeklong challenge. So no coffee or caffeinated soda for him for seven days….

Hoosier Ag Today Disaster aid, food stamps hold up farm billDesMoinesRegister.com, IA –5 hours ago“Many low-income families really aren’t getting the same food stamp value they were getting a year ago or two years ago,” Harkin said. …A 48-hour farm bill?Agriculture OnlineFarm bill still awaits final funding dealBrownfieldLawmakers Differ on Farm Bill FinancingCQPolitics.comReuters – Reutersall 10 news articles…

Wicked Local Easton GOOD NEWS: Create Bible Scene StampsWicked Local EastonBible Scene Stamps are fun to make, and they provide older children with a terrific opportunity to be creative. To make Bible Scene Stamps you need: Bibles, Bible concordances, newspaper, paper, markers, a sheet of Styrofoam, craft knives, pencils with … More: continued here

Commentary: Santorum stumbles over food stamps stereotypeKansas City StarA fact probably not known to the Iowans in the room with Santorum is that 84 percent of Iowans who receive food stamps are white. So why did Santorum single out African-Americans in a state that has a black population of 2.9 percent? …The Santorum SlurSeattle Mediumall…

Sending mail can be eating dessert too, thanks to the Belgian postal service. Belgium is taking kicking its chocolate-loving image up a notch with the introduction of flavoured postal stamps. [ Related: Tim Hortons creates sitcom-inspired donut ] bpost announced … Continue reading → More: continued here

As a new stamp of Marie Stopes shows, the people and things that go on stamps can prove a controversial business. More: continued here