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TPMDC Florida GOP To Food Stamp Recipients: No Sweets For YouTPMDCRepublicans in Florida are trying to prevent people on food stamps from buying items like candy, soda and chips with their state-funded assistance. “You can't feed a family on potato chips and Mountain Dew, which is the goal: feeding hungry …

In our Facebook Story of the Day, grocers and the USDA breaks down what can and cannot be purchased with food stamps. More: continued here

Two new stamps showing Victorian illustrations of Charles Dickens characters are unveiled to mark the novelist's birth bicentenary. More: continued here

kypost.com I-Team: Food stamp fraud continues despite electronic trackingkypost.comCOLUMBUS, Ohio – One out of every six Hamilton County residents is on food stamps. It's a $216 million program in the county, $75 billion nationwide. Even though people still refer to them as food stamps, Ohio did away with the paper …

Kent Online Dickens stamps released to mark centenaryKent OnlineCharles Dickens has had the ultimate seal of approval – his work on a set of stamps! The celebrated author, born exactly 200 years ago today, is being celebrated by Royal Mail in a set of 10 stamps to be released on …

Newt Gingrich is playing racial politics and he is playing to win. More: continued here

ABC News Biden dings Mitt on foreclosures, Newt on food stampsPolitico (blog)These are the same guys who are calling the president a 'food stamp president' – a thinly veiled, I don't know what it is, but it's inappropriate. It's inappropriate.” The argument that Romney is running to be America's CEO …

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Florida lawmaker is pushing a bill that would ban the use of food stamps to purchase snacks and sweets like cookies and cakes. Republican Sen. Ronda Storms of Valrico says she wants to stop the small percentage of… More: continued here

Zee News Now, Delhi to issue e-stamps of all denominationsDeccan HeraldAfter Karnataka, Delhi is likely to become the second state to issue e-stamp papers in all denominations as the Cabinet has decided to bring non-judicial stamp papers of Rs 500 denomination and below too under the e-stamp mode. The complete …

Florida's proposed food-stamp restrictionsWashington Post (blog)Ronda Storms has attracted media attention for proposing state legislation that would, among other things, expand the list of foods people can't purchase with food stamps. Storms (R) has submitted a bill that would prohibit participants in the …and more » More: continued here