STAMPS FEATURE WINTER FLOWERS – Quad City Times

STAMPS FEATURE WINTER FLOWERSQuad City TimesFour flowers that brighten winter days — the amaryllis, cyclamen, Christmas cactus and paperwhite — are featured in a new set of Forever stamps from the U.S. Postal Service. To create the stamps, the flowers were first photographed and then "painted … More: continued here

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STAMPS FEATURE WINTER FLOWERS

Four flowers that brighten winter days — the amaryllis, cyclamen, Christmas cactus and paperwhite — are featured in a new set of Forever stamps from the U.S. Postal Service. More: continued here

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Jobs are the key to ending food stamps – The News Journal

Jobs are the key to ending food stampsThe News JournalThat 17 percent of Delawareans are still on food stamps this long after the "official" end of the recession should be disturbing. Most important, it speaks not to a culture of dependence that some critics allege, but to a sluggish economy. …

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Playing politics with food stamps – The News Journal

Philly.com Playing politics with food stampsThe News JournalTom Corbett – who has no problem starving his state's most populous and academically struggling urban school districts of funding – flipped his fiscal conservative script and declared that Congress needs to preserve food stamps as an important safety …In surprising move, Corbett …

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SUNDAY ISSUE: Stamping out food stamp fraud

People who receive assistance commonly referred to as food stamps in Pennsylvania spend $1 of every $20 in benefits at convenience stores, yet federal data show corner stores represent a disproportionate share of fraud cases. More: continued here

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