A record number of Americans now rely on food stamps. Nearly 38-million people, or one in every eight citizens, received federal benefits to help buy groceries at latest count. More: continued here
Read More »London close: Commodity slide hits Footsie (ShareCast)
LONDON (SHARECAST) – Footsie ended the day firmly in the red with low commodity prices helping to offset positive broker coverage. With the oil price below $80, oil titans Royal Dutch Shell and BP found themselves on traders’ sell lists. More: continued here
Read More »Dissecting the recent pop in call volume on EBAY (Schaeffers Research)
Online auctioneer eBay Inc. (EBAY: sentiment, chart, options) has garnered quite a bit of attention from call speculators recently, as investors place their bets ahead of both January options expiration and the company’s upcoming date in the earnings confessional…( Read More ) More: continued here
Read More »Owners of rare stamps sought – The Press
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Read More »More kids need food stamps (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
The United States has more poor children now than it did a year ago. As the number of recession-hammered families increases, more are using food stamps to feed their kids, according to a study by the Brookings Institution and First Focus, a bipartisan child advocacy group. More: continued here
Read More »Vulnerability Allows Mobile Users to Gain Unauthorized Access to eBay UK Accounts (AuctionBytes)
Late Monday night, an eBay user in the UK wrote on the discussion boards about a problem he was having with his mobile account. “Almost every-time I log-in to my Account using my Mobile phone I keep getting logged in to other peoples Accounts. More: continued here
Read More »Mo. Food Stamp Error Puts Hold on Digital Records – ABC News
Mo. Food Stamp Error Puts Hold on Digital RecordsABC NewsThe state agency said the actual number of Missouri food stamp participants is around 855000 — not the more than 1.1 million it reported to the federal …Food stamp program might owe millionsMissourinet.comMo. food stamp error puts hold on digital recordsKOAM-TVState …
Read More »Record Number of Americans Now on Food Stamps – In These Times
Reuters Record Number of Americans Now on Food StampsIn These TimesBrittney Nance fills out an application for food stamps at the Department of Employment and Social Services in Sacramento, Calif., in March 2009. …One in eight Americans receives food stamps: USReuters1 in 8 Americans Receiving Food StampsDemocracy Nowall 15 news …
Read More »10 Days To Go, 10 Reasons To Vote – Royal Pharmaceutical Society (Medical News Today)
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society is today launching the second phase of the campaign to encourage members to vote in the English, Welsh and Scottish Pharmacy Board elections by giving members “10 reasons to vote” over the next 10 days. RPSGB Chief Executive, Jeremy Holmes said: “These historic elections offer members …
Read More »Stanley Gibbons pins profit hopes on 2010 Festival of Stamps (Daily Telegraph)
Stanley Gibbons, the stamp collecting group, has issued a profit warning for 2009 and is pinning its hopes for this year on the Festival of Stamps being held in London in May. More: continued here
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