Bridenstine tells constituents that farm bill shouldn't include food stampsTulsa WorldTexas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst promised Saturday that a bill toughening abortion restrictions would not be derailed again after screaming protesters this week drowned out state senators and ran out the clock on a vote.and more » More: continued here
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Wall Street Journal (blog) Chinese Stamp Collectors Push the EnvelopeWall Street Journal (blog)In China, stamps surged in value from 2008 through to 2011, with many top items quadrupling or more in value during that period. In particular, the most speculative market was for Communist-era stamps, whose value rose as much as 16 times for popular …Sizzling…
New York Daily News Food stamps recipients told by 311 they will be fingerprinted, despite banNew York Daily NewsCuomo announced a ban on requiring New Yorkers to be finger printed to get food stamps, the city has been telling applicants that they'll have to be fingerprinted to get the benefits. Callers to 311 are told…
Living like kings on food stampsBaltimore SunIn this economy, I know there are families who are hurting and need food stamps. The truth is so many people think this is a given that they will spend their money on the things in life that most middle class folks can afford only once in a while…
Salon How epic GOP bumbling could inadvertently save food stampsSalonThis disdain is severe enough that 62 Republican members of Congress voted down last month's Farm Bill — with several specifically citing the proposed $20 billion cut to food stamps (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) as …Farm bill's death shows just how partisan politics…
Montreal Gazette Farm bill's death shows just how partisan politics have becomeAmarillo.comFor decades, country and city interests had come together every few years to pass the farm bill, a measure that provided billions of subsidies to farmers and businesses in rural areas and food stamp money for urbanites. No more. The defeat of the 2013…
More than a year after Gov. Cuomo announced a ban on requiring New Yorkers to be finger printed to get food stamps, the city has been telling applicants that they’ll have to be fingerprinted to get the benefits. More: continued here
WJXT Jacksonville FL best in food stamp efficiencyWJXT JacksonvilleJust for some perspective, ten years ago, one in 25 people in Jacksonville was on food stamps. Now that number is one in five. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Florida will receive an $8 million bonus as a result of the exemplary work of …and more »…
It's time our leaders stop their 'war on food stamps'Iowa City Press CitizenI refer to the most recent so-called entitlement program on the government chopping block: SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) formerly known as Food Stamps. Paul Krugman, the brilliant Nobel Laureate in Economics, recently decried “the …Commentary – Cuts to food stamp program mean more…