Straits Times Singapore's April Consumer Prices Post First Decline Since 2005BloombergBy Shamim Adam May 25 (Bloomberg) — Singapore's consumer prices fell for the first time since June 2005 last month as transport and housing costs dropped amid the deepest recession in the nation's 44-year history. The consumer price index declined …
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Read More »Woman, teen sought in credit, food-stamps theft (The Columbus Dispatch)
The theft of a credit card and a food-stamp card from a vehicle on the East Side is the crime of the week in the Crime Stoppers program. More: continued here
Read More »Under state law, assets will not count against households (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin)
As food banks report the region’s worst hunger crisis in decades, Los Angeles County supervisors this week directed officials to allow more middle-class families to qualify for food stamps. Currently, if a family has savings of more than $2,000, its members do not qualify for food stamps. More: continued here
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Read More »PRESS DIGEST – Wall Street Journal – May 25 – Reuters
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Read More »Woman, teen sought in credit, food-stamps theft on East Side (The Columbus Dispatch)
The theft of a credit card and a food-stamp card from a vehicle on the East Side is the crime of the week in the Crime Stoppers program. A wallet containing the cards was stolen about 5 p.m. Feb. 9. A woman used the stolen cards that day at a …
Read More »Birmingham Mail offices given royal seal of approval – BirminghamMail.net
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Read More »Get out of line at Post Office (Post-Bulletin)
While the price of a first-class stamp has increased to 44 cents, there’s still savings — of time and money — to be had online, at the United States Postal Service’s Web site. You can buy stamps by the sheet and postage-paid priority mail envelopes. More: continued here
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