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Austin American-Statesman Amazon, other online retailers to accept food stampsAustin American-StatesmanBoxes move along a conveyor belt at an Amazon fulfillment center on January 20, 2015 in Tracy, California. WASHINGTON. Amazon and six other online retailers will soon be able to take government assistance as payment for groceries under a new plan.and more » More: continued here

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Newsday Growth in food stamp allotment boosts economyNewsday, NYBY ELIZABETH MOORE | elizabeth.moore@newsday.com Andrew Kurdziel, with his daughter Angelica, 10, is disabled and receives food stamps. He was among the first wave of individuals to benefit from the federal stimulus package. … More: continued here

OregonLive.com Grand juries are not rubber stamps for prosecutors (OPINION)OregonLive.comIn a recent opinion piece in The Oregonian, criminal defense attorney Kevin Sali argued that grand juries in Clackamas County are nothing more than rubber stamps for prosecutors. Mr. Sali is an experienced defense attorney, but he does not prosecute … More: continued here

Los Angeles Times This stamp artist makes all of the postage doLos Angeles TimesFriends from around the world clip the stamps from envelopes and send them to Familian, who patiently sorts them, stores them in zip-lock pages and then uses them to create fanciful designs that have a nearly hypnotic quality. She's now 93, and…

Not News: Food Stamp Participation Jumped by Over 600000 in September …NewsBusters (blog)The U.S. Department of Agriculture released its latest report on food stamp program participation through September today. I received the email alerting me to the release at 5:17 p.m., so it seems reasonable to believe that USDA and the Barack Obama … More:…