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Hello Class, Your Professor Is on Food StampsHuffington PostIn the winter of 2006, I was an adjunct English professor at a university in Fairbanks, Alaska with a baby due at the beginning of the spring semester. If I needed to take maternity leave, it would be unpaid. But the choice …

CNN Price of stamps goes up this weekendCNNOne way around it is buying Forever Stamps now and using them any time for first-class mail, the kind used by most consumers. Launched in 2007, Forever Stamps are always valid, no matter what people paid for them and even if prices go …

The cost of mailing a letter will increase by three cents Sunday, the largest increase in consumer postage prices in over a decade. Saturday is the last day stamps can be bought for 46 cents. Mailing a post card will also cost one cent more than before from Sunday, bringing …

NEW YORK ( MainStreet ) — The price of a stamp will go up on Sunday again. Effective January 26, the United States Postal Service will raise the price of its first class stamps by three cents, from 46 to 49 cents apiece. More: continued here

WCPO More than 10K Ohioans lose food stamps over work rulesYoungstown VindicatorCOLUMBUS (AP) — Thousands of poor Ohio residents have lost food-stamp benefits for not fulfilling work requirements, and the number is expected to rise in the coming months. The Columbus Dispatch reports more than 10,000 people lost the benefits …

Food stamps are matter of justice, Sen. Casey says during tour of Duquesne …Tribune-ReviewU.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. said the food stamp issue isn't just one of public policy, but of basic justice. “(It's) the justice that comes when someone doesn't have to worry that they do not have enough …

From ColumbusAlive.comColumbus DispatchMore than 10,000 poor Ohioans have lost food stamp benefits this month for failing to meet newly enforced work requirements. That's 7 percent of the roughly 140,000 able-bodied adults ages 18 to 50 without dependent children who are now required to …and more » More: continued here

Price of Stamps Going Up SundayPatch.comA temporary price hike of 3 cents for a first-class stamp has been OK'd bringing the charge to 49 cents a letter to help the Postal Service recover from severe mail decreases brought on by the 2008 economic downturn. Courtesy USPS/PRNewswire. Loading. More: continued here

If you have letters or bills to mail, you might want to rush. Saturday is the last day when it will cost you 46 cents. Starting Sunday, you'll pay more — 49 cents. The planned 3-cent hike is the largest … More: continued here

The price of stamps is set to go up 3 cents to 49 cents effective Jan. 26. We asked our followers on Facebook: With email, text messaging and Facebook to keep in touch, and the ability to pay bills online, how often do you actually use stamps these days? More: …