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Mother sentenced to probation in food stamp fraud schemeChronicle-TelegramThe fraud investigation centered on Adames Deli and Grocery on East 31st Street in Lorain, where investigators contend that a confidential informant was able to purchase newspapers, lighters and cigarettes from the store using food stamps. Those items … More: continued here

Yahoo Finance (blog) Without food stamps, there might be no WhatsAppQuartzThe Farm Bill that president Barack Obama just signed into law will slash food stamp benefits just as one of the program's richest beneficiaries celebrates his success. AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin. Today, Jan Koum, the founder of WhatsApp and its biggest …Facebook …

Gov't Report: Food Stamps Participation at Historic High, Even as …The Weekly Standard (blog)A recently released Department of Agriculture (USDA) report on the "Food Assistance Landscape" for the fiscal year 2013 shows that for the second year in a row, participation in the federal government's SNAP (food stamps) program has …

Hutchinson couple works to get off food stampsWRAL.comShe could work and make the same amount of money that she would with food stamps, because of the cost of paying for day care and gas to get to work. Instead she stays home with their daughters, and relies on food stamps …

Hutchinson couple works to get off food stampsDanbury News TimesHUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — Someday, down the road, Gary and Amanda Johnson dream of owning their home and not being dependent on food stamps. For now this Hutchinson family of four relies on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to put …and more » …

Guest Commentary: Wisconsin senators put different stamps on postal issueThe Sheboygan PressGuest Commentary: Wisconsin senators put different stamps on postal issue. U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., is in the political dog house of Wisconsin's largest industry.- 5:09 pm. Letter: Scrap flexible scheduling experiment. In education, there is this …and more » …

RT (blog) Why soldiers are increasingly relying on food stampsCBS NewsOne reason for jump in food-stamp usage among soldiers could be the relatively low pay awarded to junior members of the military, with the least experienced active duty soldiers bringing home a little over $18,300 per year. That would qualify …

THE price of a basic stamp will rise from 60 cents to 70 cents from March 31. More: continued here

KCET Military Families Are Using Food Stamps More Than EverGovExec.comMembers of the military redeemed almost $104 million worth of food stamps at commissaries from October 2012 through September 2013 fiscal year, as first reported by CNN. The figure has risen consistently since the economic recession hit in fiscal 2009.A Reminder: …

Business Insider WhatsApp's Founder Goes From Food Stamps to BillionaireBloombergFor Koum, 38, the windfall would stand in stark contrast to his years as a teenager, when his family relied on food stamps after emigrating from Ukraine. The experience of living in a country where phone lines were often tapped, instilled …