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Editorial: Thoughtful reform needed on food stamps
Aiken Standard The Congressional Budget Office, for instance, predicts unemployment will gradually drop in the next five years, likely below 6 percent by 2017, but that will not coincide with a significant dip in food stamps. By 2022, the office projects the program … |
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Pennsylvania To Start Means Testing For Food StampsCare2.com (blog)by Jessica Pieklo The war against the poor rages on as Pennsylvania announced plans to make the amount of food stamps people receive contingent on the assets they possess. As of May 1, 2012, people under 60 with more than $2000 in savings or other … More:…
Las Cruces Sun-News Philatelists gather for stamp showLas Cruces Sun-NewsThe Mesilla Valley Stamp Show was Sunday at the Las Cruces Convention Center. This was the 26th year that the Mesilla Valley Stamp Club has hosted the event. Young collectors had a chance to get free stamps at the junior stamp collector's table. More: continued here
Brainerd Dispatch Food stamps may become like Blue Apron; in the Great Depression, they started with blue couponsBrainerd DispatchThe World War I veteran was first in line on May 16, 1939, and would soon become the nation's first-ever food stamp recipient, according to news stories at the time. "He was besieged by reporters and photographers,…
It's a stamp-edeThis Is HampshireFIRST it was the panic at the pumps – and now there seems to be a stamp-ede at the post office. People in Basingstoke are panic buying first and second class before the prices are hiked up by Royal Mail on April 30. The post office in Pack Lane, … More:…
Life Lessons and Loves: The year of the stamps— and their many valuesThe Hillsdale Daily NewsI never cross paths with my postal carrier these days, but I'd wager to say that she probably thinks I'm a little crazy. You see, for the past year, I've been leaving her outgoing letters with stamps of varying worths….
The Stamp Stop: A look at ATM innovationATM marketplace.com (press release)The 25 cent flag USPS ATM sheetlet was issued on May 18, 1990, for a six-month test period in Seattle, Wash. But by that point, Equibank of Pittsburgh, Pa., already had 18 months of experience dispensing stamps through its ATMs. Equibank began its … More: continued…