Postal Service: Will keep rural post offices openSeattle Post IntelligencerHOPE YEN, AP WASHINGTON (AP) — The financially struggling US Postal Service sought Wednesday to tamp down concern over wide-scale cuts, revealing it will seek to keep thousands of rural post offices open with shorter hours. At a news briefing, … …

A loosening of some rules on food-stamp eligibility and an expected tightening of rules for receiving unemployment insurance may make more people out of work rely on food stamps. More: continued here

Internet auction giant eBay and mobile phone operator Softbank said Wednesday they were teaming up to bring the US firm's PayPal online billing system to Japan for the first time. More: continued here

Morristown Green Stamp Out Hunger Drive set for SaturdayElizabethton StarBy Rozella Hardin The Campbell Soup Company will join forces with the National Association of Letter Carriers for Stamp Out Hunger in the Elizabethton and Carter County area and the rest of the nation on Saturday, May 12. Now in its …

WASHINGTON (AP) – The struggling U.S. Postal Service is trying to tamp down concern over its wide-scale cuts, saying it will seek to keep hundreds of rural post offices open with shorter hours. Postmaster More: continued here

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Farmers Markets Get Money to Take Food StampsWashington PostMay. 9, 2012 – Fewer than a quarter of the nation's roughly 7100 farmers markets are set up to use the Electronic Benefit Transfer system. New grants will bring another 4000 of those outlets on line with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.and …

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RALEIGH, N.C. — The federal government is spending $4 million to help hook up farmers and low-income customers. Currently, fewer than a quarter of the nation's roughly 7,100 farmers markets are set up to use the Electronic Benefit Transfer system, or food stamps. More: continued here

Postal Service will keep rural post offices open, shorten hoursSTLtoday.comEmily Rasinski, erasinski@post-dispatch.com WASHINGTON • The struggling US Postal Service is trying to tamp down concern over its wide-scale cuts, saying it will seek to keep hundreds of rural post offices open with shorter hours. More: continued here