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KATU Cuts to food stamps hit Oregon families hardThe ColumbianEUGENE, Ore. — Casey Beason, her boyfriend and 2-year-old daughter were facing an interminable Thanksgiving weekend in their cracker-box apartment on Roosevelt Boulevard while they waited for their Oregon Trail food stamp card to recharge.Food stamp cuts hit Oregon families hardStatesman …

Congress, with few workdays left, shows no signs of settling partisan disputes over unemployment benefits, food stamps, a farm bill and the budget. WASHINGTON — Congress' unfinished business threatens to leave millions of Americans — including the unemployed, Pentagon contractors and even supermarket shoppers — in the lurch this holiday …

San Francisco Chronicle Food stamp app helps residents keep benefitsSan Francisco ChronicleNealie Yarbrough, a 51-year-old single mother, knows the sting of being at the grocery store checkout and having her debit card denied. In Yarbrough's case, it was the county-issued card that she thought would be loaded with food stamps. …

San Francisco Chronicle Mars Inc. to Libertarians Thwart Food Stamp Health LimitsMSN MoneyThat view is being defied by an unusual alliance of food producers, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, libertarians and advocates for the poor who are thwarting efforts to require recipients to buy healthy items with their food stamp …

Washington Post (blog) Inspector general seeks public opinion on Harry Potter stampsWashington Post (blog)The U.S. Postal Service's inspector general is seeking public opinion about the recently released Harry Potter stamps as a test of how Americans feel about a new commercial direction for postage. Inspector General David Williams is asking …

Put Those Postage Stamps Away: Canva Launches Christmas Cards That …NewsdayEach year Americans send a whopping two billion Christmas cards, spending hours waiting in checkout lines, licking dozens of icky stamps and worrying that snail mail won't get their holiday messages to friends and family in time. Perhaps that's why …

Evangeline Lilly ‘stamps’ her mark on Middle-earth. Actor Evangeline Lilly says she is delighted to be featured on an official New Zealand Post stamp and coin to help celebrate the upcoming release of the epic fantasy adventure The Hobbit: The … More: continued here

There's one thing that underpaid McDonald's workers and underpaid editorial interns at Mother Jones have in common: their employers told them to apply for food stamps. "During our first meeting with HR at Mother Jones, we were advised to sign up for food stamps," an anonymous former MoJo intern told Vice. That …

Update 1:54 p.m.: Mother Jones' public affairs director, Elizabeth Gettelman, writes in an email that the company never encouraged interns or fellows to sign up for food stamps, but that the HR department does explain to its fellows that they qualify for food stamps because they are paid so little. That's actually not …

USPS's “Potter” Stamps Piss Off PhilatelicsLez Get RealThere was once a time when collecting stamps was a fun, and entertaining hobby. Sadly with the invention of The Internet and e-mail, stamps and “snail mail” are dying out fast. Leave it to the U.S. Postal Service to give it one last …