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Farmers Markets Get Money to Take Food StampsWashington PostMay. 9, 2012 – Fewer than a quarter of the nation's roughly 7100 farmers markets are set up to use the Electronic Benefit Transfer system. New grants will bring another 4000 of those outlets on line with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.and …

RALEIGH, N.C. — The federal government is spending $4 million to help hook up farmers and low-income customers. Currently, fewer than a quarter of the nation's roughly 7,100 farmers markets are set up to use the Electronic Benefit Transfer system, or food stamps. More: continued here

Remembering all about stamps — and not the postage kindThe-News-LeaderA philatelist is one who collects and saves postage stamps. During the Great Depression beginning in 1929 and the war in 1941 almost everybody saved and collected stamps. Not postage stamps, but Green Eagle Stamps and Ration Stamps. More: continued here

ThinkProgress Rep. Allen West On Food Stamps: 'That's How You Enslave The American People'ThinkProgressWest, speaking at the Broward County Lincoln Day Dinner this past Saturday, warned the crowd about the danger of food stamps for American society. “In the last 10 years,” West said, the “food stamp program that has …

The federal government is spending $4 million to help hook up farmers and low-income customers. More: continued here

Kings County Register/Advertiser Valley Stamp Club growingKings County Register/AdvertiserBY KIRK STARRATT There are probably as many different reasons why people collect stamps as there are nuances and niches for the philatelist to explore. Visitors to the Valley Stamp Club's annual exhibition at the Kentville fire hall April 28 were …and …

Boston.com Farmers markets getting money to take food stampsBoston.comCurrently, fewer than a quarter of the nation's roughly 7100 farmers markets are set up to use the Electronic Benefit Transfer system, or food stamps. But Kathleen Merrigan, deputy secretary of agriculture, says she hopes these grants will bring … More: continued …

State limits distribution of cigarette tax stamps during tax hike debateCanton Daily LedgerBy TIM LANDIS The Illinois Department of Revenue is limiting distributors of cigarette tax stamps to their usual supplies while the legislature and Gov. Pat Quinn debate whether to add an additional dollar to the state portion of …

New York Times (blog) Food Stamps and Unemployment InsuranceNew York Times (blog)By CASEY B. MULLIGAN The Department of Agriculture's food-stamp program, now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, was originally intended as a program for the poor. But it has transformed itself into an important source of …

Kansas City Star Farmers Markets Getting Money to Take Food StampsABC NewsCurrently, fewer than a quarter of the nation's roughly 7100 farmers markets are set up to use the Electronic Benefit Transfer system, or food stamps. But Kathleen Merrigan, deputy secretary of agriculture, said she hopes these grants will bring …