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NPR Boehner Seeks to Keep States From Avoiding Food-Stamp CutBloombergHouse Republicans should act to block states from avoiding $8.6 billion in food-stamp cuts lawmakers enacted last month, House Speaker John Boehner said. “Since the passage of the farm bill, states have found ways to cheat, once again, on signing up …Boehner …

House Republicans should act to block states from avoiding $8.6 billion in food-stamp cuts lawmakers enacted last month, House Speaker John Boehner said. "Since the passage of the farm bill, states have found ways to cheat, once again, on signing up people for food stamps," Boehner told reporters today in …

Food stamps: Oregon becomes fourth state to avoid farm bill cutsThe OregonianThe farm bill included cuts to food stamps through a program called “Heat and Eat” that's used in 15 states. Participants who received at least $1 a year in federal energy assistance also got an increase in food stamps. …

Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) Postal Service releases Jimi Hendrix forever stampSeattle Post Intelligencer (blog)26, when stamps went from 46 cents to 49 cents. The stamp honoring Hendrix's legacy will be dedicated at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas before a Jimi Hendrix celebration concert. “Combining influences from rock, modern jazz, …

SS soldiers used the small stamps to tattoo inmates as they were processed on their arrival at the camp in German-occupied Poland More: continued here

Rare metal stamps used by the Nazis to tattoo prisoners at the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp have surfaced in Poland. A donor insisting on anonymity handed over the stamps to the memorial museum at the site of the World War II-era camp in Oswiecim, southern Poland. "We obtained the stamps …

Food stamps: Did John Kitzhaber make the right call on avoiding cuts? (poll)The OregonianFood stamps: Did John Kitzhaber make the right call on avoiding cuts? (poll). thekitz.JPG. Gov. John Kitzhaber has decided Oregon will change the way it allocates federal low-income energy assistance money to avoid a cut in food …

Boehner: New York, Other States Guilty of "Cheating and Fraud" on Food StampsNew York Daily News (blog)House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is calling New York and other states big, fat cheats. Boehner claimed they're guilty of “cheating and fraud” by taking steps to avert food stamp cuts included in a …

Haaretz Metal stamps used to tattoo Jewish prisoners of Auschwitz discoveredJerusalem PostIn a press release Elżbieta Cajzer, Head of the Museum Collections at the Auschwitz Museum said “we acquired removable metal plates with a few millimeter-long needles, which were inserted into a special stamp to create a specific number. The …

WCTI12.com Food stamps backlog fixed? Not yet, Wos tells lawmakers (w/update)The Progressive PulseBecause of privacy laws surrounding government assistance like food stamps, it's unclear if scenarios like those of Maria Best, a Greensboro woman who has been waiting since December for food stamps, are being reflected in DHHS caseload data. …