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An Investor's Guide To Collecting US Stamps
Forbes The universe of investment grade stamps for the United States is one of the largest in philately. My analysis focused on more than 3,000 listed items issued before 1950 and priced at $25 or more. Since our investment grade universe includes some 60,000 … |
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Subsistence hunters protest duck stampsAnchorage Daily NewsThe concern comes as subsistence hunters face penalties for the first time this spring if they don't buy and carry the stamps. Native members of a migratory …and more » More: continued here
GPB Food Stamps and the Farm BillNew York TimesThe version of the farm bill that emerged from the Senate Agriculture Committee contains $4.5 billion in cuts to the food stamps program over 10 years. That amount is a small fraction of the nation's spending on food stamps, currently nearly $80 …Unveiling Food Stamp Amendments, Sessions…
A record number of Americans—46.7 million, or nearly 1 in 7–now uses the food stamp program, according to the Department of Agriculture. The annual cost of SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, as the food stamp program is officially known) hit $72 billion last year, up from $30 billion four years earlier. More: continued here
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Fortune The USDA's Digital Food Stamps Could Help Solve SNAP ProblemsFortuneThe USDA is testing a two-year pilot program that allows SNAP users to use their food stamps to buy groceries online.and more » More: continued here
Washington’s famed Cosmos Club (incorporated 1878) counts among its members some of the city’s greatest minds. I don’t go there much anymore (my late father-in-law was a member), but I remember there was one wall devoted to members who had won Nobel or Pulitzer prizes and another devoted to members who appeared on postage stamps….