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This Depressing Chart Shows How Many More Americans Are Now on Food …TheBlaze.com1 in 6 Americans are now on food stamps and the USDA has an aggressive campaign to enroll millions more—whether they need the benefit or not. We must return to the moral principles of the 1996 reform and …

Minneapolis Star Tribune U.S Postal issues new Civil War and Gettysburg stampsPhilly.comDown the long line, the smoke of muskets and artillery boiled from the landscape, marking the collision point of Union and Confederate forces at the Battle of Gettysburg. That moment was captured in an 1887 chromolithograph by Thure de …

Pope Senior Receives Stamps FellowshipPatch.comThe value of the Stamps Foundation Fellowship for four years at Georgia is approximately $130,000, including enrichment funds for international travel, research internships, and outdoor leadership experiences. Lo was chosen for her leadership … More: continued here

Stamps and choosing happinessDavisclipperWhen I was a little girl, the grocery stores would give green stamps with every purchase. I loved to lick the stamps and put them in the little book. Filled books were saved and eventually when you had enough, you would take them to the green stamp… …

Two in Freeport arrested for misuse of food stampsFreeport Journal-StandardFreeport police arrested Elliott M. Hawthorne, 45, of Freeport and Jasmin J. Kloepping, 19, Freeport on two separate but identical incidents of public aide wire fraud and the unauthorized use of federal food stamps. Police say that Hawthorne from April … …

The Idaho Statesman Senate rejects bid to let states run food stampsThe Idaho StatesmanFILE – This May 15, 2013 file photo shows stacks of paperwork awaiting members of the House Agriculture Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, as it met to consider proposals to the 2013 Farm Bill. The Senate …

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The Collectors: Markowitz, Herbold's David Markowitz loves stamps and orbsPortland Business Journal (blog)That tradition continued a lifelong love of collecting for Markowitz, who has been collecting stamps since age 10. His first kit was purchased at a five-and-dime store in New York City. Today, Markowitz acquires stamps and entire collections …

Ag chairman defends lawmakers who get subsidies, cut food stampsThe Hill (blog)The chairman of the House Agriculture Committee on Thursday defended fellow lawmakers who have received millions in farm subsidies while also voting this month to cut $20.5 billion from the food stamp program. Chairman Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) said it …

GOP Food Stamps Proposal Would Discriminate Against African-AmericansMother JonesOn Wednesday the Senate agriculture committee approved a GOP proposal that would amend the farm bill the Senate is considering to ban "convicted murderers, rapists, and pedophiles" from getting food stamps. On its surface, the idea sounds … More: continued here