Local, national official see increase in food stamp recipientsBeaumont Enterprise, txBy EMILY GUEVARA More people in Southeast Texas depend on food stamps now compared with this time a year ago, but the cause isn't entirely clear. The economic downturn certainly figures into it, but the extent of that can't be calculated …

KARK Record Use of Food Stamps among AmericansMSNBCOn average, food stamps provide 115 dollars' worth of food a month for a single person and 255 a month per household. Under the new economic stimulus law, food stamp payments will temporarily rise by 13-percent in April. …Food stamp enrollment jumps to …

Barrie in NeverlandThe Herald, UKI found out that the Royal Mail requires three years for applications to be considered for postage stamps to be issued, so nearly four years ago now I applied to the Royal Mail for a set of stamps for the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir …

Prince Charles love letters for sale on eBayVancouver Sun,  CanadaLOS ANGELES – Six love letters written by a young Prince Charles to a woman in Canada three decades ago have been put up for sale on Internet auction site eBay, the seller said Friday. Alicia Carroll, who runs Los Angeles-based …

Women on the Web Utahns' use of food stamps at new highSalt Lake Tribune, United StatesBy Julia Lyon Tanya Rigby, who works at the Tooele County Food Bank helping people get utility subsidies, lost her job at a local cabinet factory and is on food stamps. Utah has hit a new …

FedEx Corp. is transferring 68 Anchorage-based pilots to assignments elsewhere, a sign the world economic crisis is beginning to gnaw more deeply at the local economy. More: continued here

Fears over Post Office savingsITV.com, UKThere are concerns about money saved in Post Office savings accounts, because much of that cash is kept in the Bank of Ireland where it is not covered by British Government guarantees. A warning has been issued that UK savers with funds in Post Office… More: …

CNN correspondent Sean Callebs has just finished a long assignment: living on food stamps during all of February. He tracked his experiences on the American Morning blog. More: continued here

paidContent.org – Analyst: Expect More Internet Acquisitions This …Washington Post, United StatesAmazon (NSDQ: AMZN), eBay (NSDQ: EBAY), Priceline, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO)?have about $27 billion in cash sitting on their books. If you include Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO), that number increases to $77 billion. … …

Option trading has been brisk on the shares of eBay (EBAY: sentiment, chart, options) this afternoon…( Read More ) More: continued here