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West of the I Walker signs food stamp trafficking billGazettextra (blog)Trafficking occurs in most cases when food stamp recipients sell their benefit cards online and in the open market and then apply for free replacements. In any given month about 15 percent of Wisconsin's population, or 850,000 people, receive food …

Editorial: Split food stamps from obsolete farm programsChicago TribuneIn what passes for good news on Capitol Hill, a bitterly divided Congress finally took a step toward undoing the dysfunctional marriage of convenience between food stamps and farm subsidies. House Republicans this month pushed through a farm bill …Food Stamps Hamstring …

VVN Music KFIX Rock News: Rush, Guess Who Stamps Debut In Canadahays PostRush's stamp features the band's famous “Starman” logo that appears on the back cover of their landmark 1976 album, 2112. Also among the Canadian groups receiving their own stamps is The Guess Who. The image on the veteran …

FrontPage Magazine Food Stamp Program Helps Feed Half the CaribbeanFrontPage MagazineFood stamps are paying for trans-Atlantic takeout — with New Yorkers using taxpayer-funded benefits to ship food to relatives in Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Welfare recipients are buying groceries with their Electronic Benefit Transfer … More: continued here

Wonkette's Pet College Newspaper Asks: If You're On Food Stamps, Why Are …Wonkette (satire)This week, the young fogeys of the ISD editorial board turn their attention to the timely issue of food stamps, and they manage a pretty neat trick: In an editorial titled “Food stamp abuse necessitates restriction,” they …

McDonald's Minimum Wage Budget Ignores Tax Credits, Food Stamps And RealityForbesThat's because the ground such workers have lost to inflation has been made up by growing federal income supplements in the form of refundable tax credits and food stamps (now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.) Let's do …

Human Events Illinois rewarded for misspending only $52 million on food stampsHuman EventsIllinois' error rate, from either overspending on food stamps or not spending enough, is 1.74 percent, according to Januari Smith, a spokeswoman for the state's Department of Human Services. Just more than 2 million people in the state, …

New mom puts her creative stamp on erasersAsahi ShimbunSAKAI, Osaka Prefecture–Maki Sato's reluctance to part with her money led to a hobby that now consumes her spare time and also brings in a minor source of income. Sato, 35, carves erasers into personalized rubber stamps using a box cutter knife …

Advocate for coal miners stamp would be happy this AugustCitizens VoiceJohn Vengien was a proud Marine and a man on a quest. For more than 20 years, John pursued his dream to see a postage stamp issued for coal miners. He obtained hundreds of signatures, contacted many elected officials and …

Canada Post is rolling out four new stamps featuring the Tragically Hip, Rush, the Guess Who and Beau Dommage. More: continued here