Finger imaging for food stamps is haltedCatskill Daily MailBy WT Eckert CATSKILL — In an attempt to simplify the food stamp application process, New York State is looking at ending the finger imaging requirement for all food stamp applicants and recipients. Governor Andrew M. Cuomo made the announcement to …State to drop finger imaging requirement…
Hotel del Coronado on a StampNBC Bay Area (blog)By Alysia Gray Painter The new Billy Wilder stamp shows the Hotel del Coronado (and Marilyn Monroe, natch). The USPS stamp will debut on Wednesday, May 23 as part of the Great Directors Stamp series. INN-SIDE A STAMP: A lot of people who oversee hotels …Hotel del…
SNAP Stories: 'This Was a Lifeline'Huffington Post (blog)I had applied for food stamps and this was a life line until I could get back on my feet." Anonymous, Georgia "Like so many other people, I was the eldest of two siblings being raised by a single mother. The struggle for our family to stay fed…
Washington Times Food-stamp challenge is doableWashington TimesThe article “Celebrity chef Batali takes food stamp challenge” (Web, Monday) was interesting but puzzling. The “challenge” was to spend only $31 a week per person on food, the amount the article says is provided by food stamps. More: continued here
Gothamist Fresh Direct Will Take Food Stamps, Deliver to the BronxWNYCThe company says it will also accept food stamps at a few select locations as part of a pilot program. Fresh Direct said it was still working out the details of the food stamp program and couldn't say yet in what locations, the public benefit…
NY drops fingerprinting requirement to get food stampsNorth Country Public Radio—Cuomo (05/18/12) Governor Cuomo announced Thursday that he's rescinding a state regulation that requires food stamp recipients be fingerprinted. As Karen DeWitt reports, the governor is saying the poor and hungry are not criminals, and shouldn't be …and more » More: continued here
Gothamist FreshDirect Will Serve Entire Bronx and Take Food StampsDNAinfo(DNAinfo/Patrick Wall) PORT MORRIS — FreshDirect agreed Friday to serve all parts of The Bronx and launch a pilot program allowing food stamp users to make online orders. Critics slammed the city and state's decision earlier this year to award …Fresh Direct: Fine, We'll Deliver To…
Dianne Harrison, outgoing president of California State University, Monterey Bay will preside at… – 9:00 pm More: continued here
Kansas City Star Striking keepsakes: US Mint at West Point stamps Sept. 11 medals that raise …Washington PostThe mint at Philadelphia also stamps the medals. Congress had to approve a bill before the US Mint could start striking the Sept. 11 medal. President Barack Obama signed it into law in August 2010. While the medal…
Gothamist Fresh Direct: Fine, We'll Deliver To The Bronx, Take Food StampsGothamistCome May 21st Fresh Direct will expand beyond the higher-income ZIP codes in the borough and, arguably more important in the long run, the company will now accept food stamps over the internet. Currently Fresh Direct only serves Riverdale and Woodlawn …Grocer will ZIP…