New York City’s Independent Budget Office says nearly 1.6 million residents are on food stamps — a pace of growth not seen since the early years of the program in the 1970s. From January 2008 to August of this year, the food stamp enrollment grew by 354,000 people. That’s an …
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Read More »Stock Picks: eBay, 3M, Amgen – BusinessWeek
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Read More »Stamps.com Announces Third Quarter 2009 Results – IT Business Net
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Read More »Stamps.com Announces Third Quarter 2009 Results (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
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Read More »Royal Mail Union Calls On More Strikes to Start From Oct. 29 – Bloomberg
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Read More »UPDATED: New Royal Mail strikes planned for next week (PrintWeek)
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Read More »Locals mail coconuts to save post office (UPI)
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