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Portland, Seattle Mayors Fight Against Food Stamps for SodaThe Lund ReportJune 22, 2013 — The war on soda continues and this time the fight has turned to food stamps. Led by everyone'e favorite elected official, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, 18 mayors are fighting against food stamps being used to …

Stampeders great Vince Danielsen, Every Yard Counts player representative Justin Phillips and other members of the current Stampeders team as well as members of the Outriders cheer team, Ralph the Dog and patients at the Alberta Children’s Hospital will help launch one of the club’s most popular charitable initiatives on …

Eat the Rich! How the Food Stamp Cuts Reflect an Emerging Front in the Climate …Huffington PostThere are any number of reasons to celebrate Friday's defeat of the 2013 Farm Bill in the House. Notably, the House version of the Farm Bill would have made a whopping $20.5 billion cut …

Arkansas Times Tom Cotton's extreme fight against food stamps: Biblical it isn'tArkansas TimesAll four congressmen are Republicans and critical in varying degrees of the big nutrition program, formerly called food stamps, that helps millions of people, about 551,000 of them in Arkansas, buy groceries. Three of them—Tim Griffin, Steve Womack …

While farm subsidies are bad for business, demand for the SNAP program proves food stamps are an effective and efficient part of America’s social safety net More: continued here

Cut the Farm Aid, Keep the Food StampsBusinessweekThe main reason the House couldn't muster the required votes was a set of sharpening disagreements over food stamps. Specifically, the legislation called for $21 billion in cuts to the food stamp program over the coming decade. Rebellion set in after a … …

Cutting food stamps is farm bill follyWilkes Barre Times-LeaderThat misguided principle stands at the center of a House farm bill push to cut $20.5 billion from food stamps over a decade, officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Pursuing the sacred cause of deficit reduction, Congress …and more » More: …

Rarest Chinese stamp to be auctioned by Interasia Auctions this weekendArt DailyHONG KONG.- Preeminent China, Hong Kong and Asian stamp auctioneer Interasia Auctions Ltd will be auctioning the rarest regularly-issued stamp of China – the 1897 Red Revenue Small One Dollar – at its mammoth Chinese and Asian stamp auction …

KUTV 2News Food Stamps Sink Bloated Farm BillNewsmax.comUnder the tenure of President Obama, the food stamp program has doubled and has become one of the most prolific and abused welfare programs in our nation's history. The president even threatened Congress that he would veto the bill that was defeated …Editorial: Separate …

Americans on Food Stamps Outnumber Population of SpainWall Street Sector SelectorAs of March of this year, 47.7 million Americans are now on some form of food stamps. Between 2000 and 2012, the number of Americans resorting to food stamps increased more than 171%. In 2000, there were just 17.1 million …