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Slate Magazine (blog) Winning World Cup Stamp Designs That Challenge Postal Services to Up Their …Slate Magazine (blog)With every global sporting event come endless opportunities for branding and design, and the FIFA World Cup has inspired a slew of uninspiring commemorative stamp designs issued by participating countries, plus unofficial tributes …

Pasco store target of food stamp fraud probeMid Columbia Tri City HeraldPASCO — Federal, state and local authorities descended on a Pasco grocery store Wednesday as part of a statewide crackdown on the illegal sale of food stamps. A swarm of unmarked vehicles and a Pasco police car blocked off …

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Some local farmers markets accept food stampsKEPR 19Sylvia remembers when paper food stamps were originally accepted back in the '90s. But when paper stamps turned to a plastic EBT card, the market was still cash-only. It had no way of accepting the cards for the next two decades. But that …

No, Jack in the Box doesn't really accept food stampsmySanAntonio.comSAN ANTONIO – Jack in the Box began accepting Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) in the Alamo City this month, but some inaccurate reports from local media, including KENS5, claim that the fast food chain is accepting food stamps. More: …

SAN ANTONIO – Jack in the Box began accepting Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) in the Alamo City this month, but some inaccurate reports from local media, including KENS5, claim that the fast food chain is accepting food stamps. More: continued here

Flagler College Gargoyle (blog) Even with food stamps, those in poverty struggleFlagler College Gargoyle (blog)Carra Wall is conscious of the looks she gets when she uses her EBT card at the nearby Winn-Dixie. When she walks in the door with her five small children, she embodies every stereotype of a …

The food stamps cookbook: how to eat for $4 a dayVoxBrown's Good and Cheap, currently the focus of a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign, aims to make good food more accessible to Americans on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, often called food stamps). Though Brown has crafted … More: continued here

Postal News: USPS issues Hot Rods Forever stampsLehigh Acres CitizenThe U.S. Postal Service celebrates the fast, powerful vehicles thrill-seeking enthusiasts have been modifying for nearly a century by dedicating the limited-edition Hot Rods Forever stamps. The stamps depict two 1932 Ford "Deuce" roadsters – a black … More: continued here

The Consumerist USPS Is Not Encouraging You To Buy Christmas Stamps In JuneThe ConsumeristWe'll probably never know why a poster advertising Christmas stamps suddenly appeared in the window at reader Chris's local post office in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, but we're kind of relieved to know that it was not part of …