MyPalmBeachPost Food stamps for Hurricane Irma victims to be handed out TuesdayMyPalmBeachPostUPDATE: Long lines are being reported today at the John Prince Memorial Park site, west of Lake Worth, as people showed up overnight to get assistance.BREAKING: Food stamp sign-up jams streets from Lake Worth to LantanaPalm Beach Postall 2 news articles » More: continued here
Sun Sentinel Hurricane Irma food stamp sign-up brings traffic jams, capacity crowds to Palm Beach County sitesSun SentinelIn a repeat of what happened elsewhere in South Florida, thousands of people were lining up at three Palm Beach County locations before dawn Tuesday for the start of a post-Hurricane Irma disaster food stamp program. One location…
The Independent Royal Mail shareholders paid over £800m in past four years while services are scaled backThe IndependentRoyal Mail shareholders have been paid over £800m in the past four years while the company scaled back the number of postal workers, delivery offices and planned cuts to pension schemes for employees. The company – privatised by…
Miami Herald Applying for food stamps shouldn't be tortureMiami HeraldWhile the people seeking food stamps likely are not otherwise eligible for them, the sheer numbers of people who showed up not just at Tropical Park, but also at other sites in Greater Miami, further exposes the level of income disparity in this community.50000 Floridians Line…
Madison.com Pair of bills aim to encourage, require food stamp recipients buy healthy foodMadison.comThe Department of Health Services must seek proposals from groups to administer the pilot program through a state contract, which would include requiring the contractor to manage all financial transactions between and among the food stamp recipients, …and more » More: continued here
Santa Cruz Sentinel Santa Cruz police chief displaces homeless by post office, softens sleeping banSanta Cruz SentinelThe chief's op-ed was published just days after his officers used “personal persuasion rather than positional power” to clear out what he estimated was about a dozen people regularly sleeping along the chain-link fencing outside the downtown post office….
Letter: No toilet paper at Crystal Lake post office?Northwest HeraldSo the Crystal Lake post office has stopped supplying its employees with toilet paper, hand soap and paper towels in their washrooms. What a perfectly efficient means to spread E. coli, salmonella, shigella and cryptosporidium, to name a few bacteria, … More: continued here
Scottish Daily Record Outrage as it's revealed Royal Mail shareholders are paid £500,000 …Scottish Daily RecordMore than £626million has been handed to private investors since the service were sold off by the Government four years ago.Fatcats sackful of cash as Royal Mail service slashed and …Mirror.co.ukRoyal Mail shareholders paid over £800m in past four years…
TechRadar eBay's giving Aussies a chance to snag 20% off a plethora of tech productsTechRadarIf you've been waiting to lay your hands on some brand-new tech and are getting impatient for Black Friday to come along, well, you can scratch that itch now. Starting today, eBay has a 20% discount on a huge range of…
eBay Adds Major Feature to Auctions in ErrorEcommerceBytes (blog)A week after sellers erupted upon learning eBay had added the Make an Offer feature to their auction listings, eBay made an official announcement about it today. While it will continue to test the feature on a "select group of consumer sellers," it …and more » More: continued…