Half of American kids will live in households receiving food stamps before age 20, according to a study reported Monday in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. More: continued here
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A fire that gutted the post office building in the Johannesburg central business district has finally been extinguished. More: continued here
( Cornell University ) Nearly half of American children — including 90 percent of black children and 90 percent of children who spend their childhoods in single-parent households — will eat meals paid for by food stamps at some point during childhood, reports a Cornell researcher. More: continued here
( Washington University in St. Louis ) “Forty-nine percent of all US children will be in a household that uses food stamps at some point during their childhood,” says Mark R. Rank, Ph.D., poverty expert at Washington University in St. Louis. “Food stamp use is a clear sign of poverty and food insecurity, two of…
Online auction house eBay says it has begun removing several items put up for sale by anti-abortion activists trying to raise funds for the man accused of killing a Kansas abortion provider. More: continued here
Thirty fire-fighters worked to put out a blaze at a post office in the Johannesburg CBD. More: continued here
The Royal Mail is to face legal action over the recruitment of 30,000 agency staff, says main postal union the CWU. More: continued here