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Food stamped: Starving for healthy dialoguephillyBurbs.com (blog)James interviews Toby de Pyster, whose family lived on food stamps for 40 days as a Lenten experiment. Posted: Thursday, February 2, 2012 12:10 am | Updated: 5:00 pm, Wed Feb 1, 2012. It's only February, yet the food stamps campaign issue is already …

Police: E-Town Store Sold Synthetic Drugs, Customers Purchased With Food StampsWGAL LancasterAn Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, store sold synthetic drugs for food stamps, according to police. Officers served a search and arrest warrants Wednesday morning at CR's, a gas station and convenience store, located in the 500 block of East High …

CBC.ca Stamp honours iconic Alberta cowboy John WareCalgary HeraldCALGARY — Canada Post is recognizing an iconic cowboy and pioneer rancher John Ware with a commemorative stamp. It's one of two stamps issued to celebrate Black History Month. The other one is a tribute to Viola Desmond, a civil rights beacon …

CBC.ca Stamp honours iconic Stampede cowboyCalgary HeraldCALGARY — Canada Post is recognizing an iconic cowboy and pioneer rancher John Ware with a commemorative stamp. It's one of two stamps issued to celebrate Black History Month. The other one is a tribute to Viola Desmond, a civil rights beacon in Nova …

Discover Magazine Petitioners Push for Pluto Probe Postage StampSpace.comby Robert Z. Pearlman, collectSPACE.com Editor In 1991, the US Postal Service (USPS) issued a stamp depicting the now on-again, off-again planet Pluto with the inscription "Not Yet Explored." Now, the team behind NASA's first mission to the last planet …Recommended: Petition …

Will the Real "Food Stamp President" Please Stand Up?Huffington Post (blog)How many of these folks know that the fellow who calls President Obama the "food stamp president" also distracted another president, Bill Clinton, from realizing his plan for universal health care by pushing for "welfare reform," and a measure which …

Critics had called proposed assets threshold to be eligible for state aid 'punitive.' HARRISBURG — The administration of Gov. Tom Corbett on Wednesday said it is relaxing the guidelines of an asset test it wants to impose on people seeking food stamps, although critics remained adamant that carrying out any …

Allentown Morning Call Corbett raises limit on assets for food stampsPhiladelphia InquirerBy Alfred Lubrano Modifying its original proposal, the Corbett administration is raising the amount of assets a person can have to retain food stamps, drawing the ire of critics who say the asset test itself is improper. The state …

Modifying its original proposal, the Corbett administration is raising the amount of assets a person can have to retain food stamps, drawing the ire of critics who say the asset test itself is improper. More: continued here

Patriot-News Pa. submits final plan for food stamp asset testingabc27By Myles Snyder – email The state Department of Public Welfare has submitted a final plan to bring back asset testing for Pennsylvanians receiving food stamps. The plan submitted to the Food and Nutrition Service sets asset limits at $5500 for …