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From farm fresh fruits and vegetables to flowers and even homemade baked goods, a lot of people are looking forward to the return of farmers’ markets. More: continued here

A local restaurant owner is accused of illegally using welfare benefits belonging to others to stock his south-side soul food restaurant. More: continued here

ABC7Chicago.com Postage stamps may go up again; USPS lost $1.9 billion in second quarterABC7Chicago.comThe U.S. Postal Service said Friday it lost $1.9 billion over the last three months and warned that losses would continue to mount without help from Congress. The loss for the financial quarter ending March 31 was …

2 CitiParks Farmers' Markets To Begin Accepting Food StampsCBS LocalThat's because, for the first time, two CitiParks markets will accept food stamps. Employees with the Just Harvest organization, a non-profit working to end hunger and poverty, worked with the city to make it happen. “It's pretty unacceptable that … More: …

1/3 Population of Puerto Rico Gets Food Stamps from US Gov't — $2 Billion in 2012CNSNews.com(CNSNews.com) – The federal government spent more than $2 billion to provide food stamps to Puerto Rico in 2012, up to 25 percent of which is untraceable because it is distributed in cash and there …

Wisconsin bill to limit use of food stamps for junk food would restrict …PolitiFactPeople who apply for and receive food stamps — known as FoodShare in Wisconsin — would be restricted in their use of food stamps under a bill pending in the Legislature. State Rep. Dean Kaufert said he …

Some 47.6 Million Received Food Stamps in FebruaryWall Street JournalThe number of recipients in the food stamp program, formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), reached 47.6 million, or nearly one in seven Americans. Illinois was the only state to see a double-digit year-over-year jump in …and more » …

Bill to prevent using food stamps to buy junk food fails in committeeLewiston Sun JournalAUGUSTA — Proposals by Gov. Paul LePage that would bar food stamp recipients from using benefits to buy junk food and make convicted drug felons ineligible for public assistance were rejected by lawmakers at the committee …

House farm bill cuts food stamps by $20.5BThe Hill (blog)The deeper deficit cuts endorsed by Chairman Frank Lucas are sure to please conservatives and may help get the bill through the full House. The bill also makes deep cuts to food stamp programs, which could cost the bill support from …

Morning briefing: Food stamps, Paul Ryan, WEDC, UW grant, Frito-Lay contestCapital Times (blog)Assembly passes bill requiring that most food stamp benefits go to purchasing healthy foods: Food stamp recipients would have to spend most of their benefits on healthy food, and more kinds of food stamp fraud would be explicitly …