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Feds Encourage Food Stamps: Helps Local Economies, 'Everyone Wins'The Weekly Standard (blog)Read conservative news, blogs and opinion about 2012 Elections, Big Government, Economy, Federal, food stamps, Taxes and USDA from The Weekly Standard, the must read magazine available in online edition. More: continued here

Deseret News Republicans may delay House bill to cut food stampsChicago TribuneWASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans in the House of Representatives may set aside a bill providing for the biggest reduction in food stamps for the poor since 1996, averting a fight over cuts that.Proposed food stamp cuts could leave 3 …

Daily Caller USDA moves to end questionable food stamp ads after criticismFox NewsThe Department of Agriculture moved Friday to cease future production of certain advertisements that encourage people to go on food stamps, FoxNews.com has learned, following criticism over what was described as an aggressive campaign to grow …USDA buckles, …

Cincinnati.com (blog) Emotional Jean Schmidt joins with Democrats on food stamp voteCincinnati.com (blog)Jean Schmidt, R-Miami Township, was part of a GOP firewall that blocked deeper cuts to the federal food stamp program on Thursday, as the House Agriculture Committee advanced a sweeping overhaul of federal farm policy. Schmidt sits on …

House committee approves 5-year farm billWSETThe House Agriculture Committee is running into an ideological gulf over the federal food stamp program as it begins voting on a half-trillion-dollar farm policy and food assistance bill. More: continued here

Food stamp chief calls House's proposed cuts "severe"Quad City Times (blog)In case you missed it, Kevin Concannon, the top USDA official overseeing the country's food stamps program was in Davenport on Thursday, and he defended the program that's now serving 46 million Americans and 415000 Iowans. The House and Senate …

Deseret News Proposed food stamp cuts could leave 3 million hungry in USDeseret NewsA proposal that passed the U.S. House Agriculture Committee Thursday could kick as many as three million people off government food assistance next year,Food stamp rate troublingMontgomery AdvertiserIn the LoopWashington Post (blog)Exposing The Food Stamp Stimulus FallacyDaily …

KUALA LUMPUR, July 13 (Bernama) — Pos Malaysia is issuing acollection of special issue stamps and first day covers themed on the newMalaysian coins starting July 16.Pos Malaysia Berhad chief executive officer, Datuk Khalid Abdol Rahman saidin collaboration with Bank Negara, the stamps were designed hexagonal, featuringfive and ten cents …

Agency head defends food stamps in QCQuad City TimesIn the face of potential cuts, the federal official overseeing the country's food stamps program said Thursday that people are still struggling economically and need the help. Kevin Concannon, the Agriculture Department's undersecretary for food …and more » More: continued here

Food Stamp Nation goes bilingualHuman EventsA couple of weeks ago, we learned that the United States Department of Agriculture was encouraging local offices to hold “food stamp parties,” to recruit more dependents for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which is looking increasingly … More: continued here