21% surge in food stamps

WASHINGTON — The number of Americans receiving food stamps topped 40 million for the first time in March as the jobless rate hovered near a 26-year high. Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program subsidies for food purchases totaled 40.2 million, up 21 percent from a year earlier and 1… More: …

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Post office renamed for 1st Lt. Lou Allen – Times Herald-Record

Mid-Hudson News Post office renamed for 1st Lt. Lou AllenTimes Herald-RecordThe building was renamed the 1st Lt. Louis Allen Post Office. Allen was killed in Tikrit, Iraq, in 2005.Times Herald-Record/STEVE BORLAND By John Sullivan …Post Office named after native son killed in IraqMid-Hudson Newsall 2 news articles » More: continued here

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Rights on Time

FedEx extends employee benefits to domestic partners of gay employees. by Bianca Phillips In 2007, Memphis-based FedEx was pulled from Diversity Inc.’s “Top 50 Companies for Diversity” list after the trade magazine learned the shipping giant didn’t offer benefits to domestic partners of gay employees. But FedEx could improve its …

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Greece to appoint new head to tarnished stats office – Reuters

CBC.ca Greece to appoint new head to tarnished stats officeReuters… aims to stop political meddling by giving parliament — rather than the finance ministry — the task of appointing the chief of the statistics office. …Cash-strapped Greece to sell off state ownership in railways, utilities to …The Canadian PressGreece to …

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