For Stamps, it was a very good year – Burlington Post

Bleacher Report FYI WIRZ: Richard Petty Powers Up Postal Service's Muscle Car StampsBleacher ReportRichard Petty and Kyle Petty joined Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe on February 22 to announce a special first-day-of issue of Muscle Car stamps in the infield FanZone area at DIS. It's all about speed, historic speed that hit the streets decades ……

Let Them Eat CutbacksNew York TimesFood stamps are part of the social safety net, but they work more as the ultimate ground-level crutch for Americans staggering against poverty. During the recession, food stamps were an important factor in helping an estimated 4.5 million Americans …GOP Deficit Reduction Plan: Cut Food StampsMother Jonesall 2 news articles »…

Food Stamps Crisis Ignored in Nearly 98% of Network StoriesNewsBusters (blog)When it came to food stamps, the networks deflected concerns away from “the Obama administration's failed economic policies,” according to Tad DeHaven of libertarian think tank, Cato Institute. DeHaven did not blame Obama solely for the problem. He was …A history lesson for Tom Cotton (and…

Reuters Man, Congressional Republicans really do  have it in for the food stamp program, don't they? They've tried to slash its funding . They've nixed it entirely  from the Farm Bill. And at the moment, … More: continued here

YourErie Make Food Stamps Make SenseNational Review Online (blog)Jason Voorhees (I., Camp Crystal Lake) is a slasher; Eric Cantor (R., Virginia) is not. Representative Cantor is at most a trimmer, not that you would know it from recent headlines raising the alarm over his plan to “slash” food-stamp spending. He has …57000 Use Food Stamps…

Thomas Edison has one. So does Alexander Graham Bell. In 2015, Apple founder Steve Jobs could have his own U.S. postage stamp too.A list of approved subjects for future stamps has been obtained by the Washington Post, and it looks like Jobs made the cut.         More: continued here