You’re tired after working a 12-hour shift at the supermarket. You left when the kids went to school, and now you’re back hours after they got home. Your spouse has been gone for months. Your kids watch you enter, and they hungrily wait for you to present them with dinner. …
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Resale ticket site takes aim at eBay and GumtreeB&T Marketing & MediaAround half a million Australians have been scammed purchasing event tickets off auction sites in the past 12 months alone, new research has shown. Nine in 10 Australians are sceptical about the trustworthiness of ticket resellers on auction sites, …
Read More »EDIT: Food stamps for the few – Daily Free Press (subscription)
EDIT: Food stamps for the fewDaily Free Press (subscription)You're tired after working a 12-hour shift at the supermarket. You left when the kids went to school, and now you're back hours after they got home. Your spouse has been gone for months. Your kids watch you enter, and they hungrily …
Read More »Food Stamps For Tattoos: Parlor Owner Arrested
Food stamps for tattoos were allegedly accepted at a Raleigh, N.C., tattoo parlor, according to police. The owner of the place was allegedly accepting Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards — which provide food stamp benefits to low-income families — from several customers as payment for body art on several occasions …
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Democrats look at the food stamps program and see an essential piece of a fraying safety net. Republicans see entitlement spending gone wild. More: continued here
Read More »David Ellison in Talks to Buy Santa Monica Post Office Building (Exclusive) – Variety
David Ellison in Talks to Buy Santa Monica Post Office Building (Exclusive)VarietyThe post office, which was opened as part of FDR's Works Project Administration in 1938, closed in June as business from walk-in customers dwindled. Skydance currently operates out of an office on the Paramount lot, where Ellison is knee-deep …
Read More »GOP moving forward with food-stamps cuts, and Democrats aren’t going to like it – Hot Air
GOP moving forward with food-stamps cuts, and Democrats aren't going to like itHot AirThe House finally filed the food-stamps portion of their bifurcated farm bill on Monday, complete with the utterly, contemptibly “draconian” 5 percent cut to current spending levels that the opposition feared, and the ensuing level of drama …
Read More »Royal Mail staff sent shares offer – Lancashire Evening Post
Lancashire Evening Post Royal Mail staff sent shares offerLancashire Evening PostMore than 1,000 Royal Mail employees in Lancashire have now received details of their free shares offer following the Government's decision to privatise the company. Overall, around 150,000 eligible Royal Mail employees will receive an information … More: continued here
Read More »Death penalty defendant in Henning Post Office killings due in court Tuesday – Memphis Commercial Appeal
Death penalty defendant in Henning Post Office killings due in court TuesdayMemphis Commercial AppealChastain Montgomery is due in court Tuesday for a pretrial hearing in the Henning Post Office murders, as prosecutors continue their attempts to secure a federal death sentence — something that has happened just once in Tennessee …
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The FedEx Cup is not the only thing on the line this week at the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. More: continued here
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