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Bay Area food stamp program sees rise in enrollment
Inside Bay Area, CA – By Sara Steffens, STAFF WRITER Struggling with rising prices and a stalled economy, growing numbers of Bay Area families are turning to food stamps. … |
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Record-Searchlight Special Sacramento River fishing stamp repealedRecord-SearchlightStarting in January, anglers won't need a special stamp to fish below some dams in rivers feeding the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and San Francisco Bay. …and more » More: continued here
Stamps happy to have Browner backCanada.com, CanadaComing off an all-Canadian season and establishing himself as one of the league's elite shutdown cornerbacks, it was universally assumed that Browner was headed to the NFL (he'd never hidden those ambitions) after two seasons in Calgary, and the Stamps… More: continued here
Slate Magazine House votes due on crop subsidies, food stampsThe Seattle TimesRepublican leaders have said they want to finish voting on the bill Thursday. Supporters have been working this week to shore up support for the measure as members of both parties have signaled opposition to the legislation's $2 billion cut in food stamps.House Votes…
WASHINGTON — The odds of winning one of Michigan's high-stakes lottery games are 1 in 10,000, but the probability of two people hitting million-dollar jackpots and still be collecting food stamps has to be even more remote. Yet that is exactly what happened in Michigan, stoking a nationwide debate over whether the program is becoming…
Deseret News Feds hope new rules will help curb food stamp fraudDeseret NewsBy Andrew Adams, Deseret News Jennifer Velazquez hands over some tokens in payment for some fruit as she shops with her family with food stamp tokens Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011 in the last Farmers' market at Pioneer Park in Salt Lake City. More:…
A week on food stamps: Naples couple living this week on a poverty budgetNaples Daily NewsBoth are taking part in a "food stamp challenge" to live on $34.89 worth of food for one week, to gain perspective about how hard it is to live on so little and confront hunger. (They'll also blog about their…