Food Stamps Welcomed At California Restaurants – Watchdog

The number of Americans signing up for food stamps jumped more than 1 million for Aug. and Sept. of this year, says the latest report issued by the US Department of Agriculture. That brought the total number using the program to just under 48 million.The US added only 340… More: continued here

Food stamp wait grows longerColumbia Daily TribuneSo Vaca filled out an application for food stamps. Then, the wait began. A month passed, then two. In some weeks, the food simply ran out. … More: continued here

DNAinfo City Worker Sentenced for Reselling Red Bull Bought With Food StampsDNAinfoQUEENS — A former Queens job center supervisor was sentenced to nearly two years in federal prison Friday for helping to steal $1.8 million from taxpayers through schemes that included using food-stamp benefits to purchase and resell Red Bull … More: continued here

The number of Utahns looking for help at food pantries has soared over the past few months as food prices spiked and personal bills rose. The state has seen a simultaneous jump in households relying on food stamps. Those in need say high rents and few jobs are part of the financial web trapping many…

OregonLive.com (blog) Much of food stamp money in Okla. spent at WalmartSan Antonio Express(AP) — Much of the nearly $1.2 billion in food stamp expenditures in Oklahoma went to Walmart stores, according to a newspaper analysis. Data supplied by the Oklahoma Department of Human Services showed that Walmart brought in about $506 million …Food stamps…

Shocking as it may seem, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) still isn’t happy with Google’s efforts to stamp out piracy. On its official blog this week, the RIAA once again bemoaned Google’s supposed lack of enthusiasm for removing links to alleged pirated content from its search results. In particular, the RIAA complained that online…