Food stamps facing slight cutsJacksonville Journal CourierFood stamps are being scaled back slightly, but the average familial recipients in Illinois, one parent and one child, will still receive $347 a month from the government for groceries. “Beginning in November, the maximum 2 person allotment will … More: continued here
Yahoo! Canada Sports Irishman Conor McGregor has gone from food stamps to Dana White's stamp of …Yahoo! Canada SportsHe's a guy who literally needed food stamps to eat until April 6, when he made his UFC debut on a Fuel card in Sweden and earned a $60,000 Knockout of the Night bonus. His was one…
New York Times (blog) Unemployed? No Food Stamps for YouNew York Times (blog)In June, the Republican plan to cut food stamps by $2 billion a year led to the failure of the farm bill—because House conservatives wanted even bigger cuts. House leaders then revived the bill to provide $196 billion to big agriculture, dropping the…
Roll Call Time to take a bite out of food stamps?High Plains JournalThe Republican-led House has severed food stamp policy from farm legislation, its longtime safe harbor. A group of GOP lawmakers is planning a separate food stamp bill that would cut the program by as much as 5 percent, or about $4 billion a…
Postal service, which operates on sales of stamps, last had profit in 2006 and …PolitiFactSuggesting the service isn't broke, Hightower declared: "Since 1971, the postal service has not taken a dime from taxpayers. All of its operations…are paid for by sales of stamps and related products. The Postal Service makes an operational profit …and more »…
MADISON, IL (KTVI) – Valerie Welsch brought some of the new stamps from the U.S. Postal Service and Chris Blair… More: continued here
ThinkProgress Markwayne Mullin: Everybody Is On Food Stamps, Including Physically Fit …Huffington Post"Every lane was open and it was backed up and I noticed everybody was giving that card," Mullin said, apparently referring to the electronic benefit transfer cards most states use to distribute food stamps. "They had these huge baskets, and I realized …Congressman…
Kan. farm group backs food stamps inclusionTopeka Capital JournalThe Kansas National Farmers Organization, meeting Thursday in Mayetta, expressed its concern that removing the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — food stamps— from the stalled farm bill working its way through Congress “may open the door … More: continued here
WEEKEND: Strait Stamp Show to lure young, old collectors to SequimPeninsula DailyLongtime stamp collector Phil Castell, right, checks the value of a stamp with an app on his smartphone for Julie Callahan during a special meeting of the Strait Stamp Society in advance of the group's annual stamp show, which will be at the Masonic…
Asian Social Network LINE Introduces New "Magi" StampsCrunchyroll NewsIn anticipation of the start of the second season of the anime adaptationin October, deformed Magi characters were introduced as stamps on the increasingly popular Asian social network LINE. I was able to find and download it for $1.99 from the US. More: continued here