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News14.com California food stamp benefits going up 13.6%Los Angeles Times, CABy Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Michael Rothfeld California food stamp recipients will receive 13.6% more benefits thanks to the federal economic stimulus package, the state Department of Social Services announced Wednesday. …NYC gets more food stamps from stimulusBusinessWeekFederal Stimulus Increases NY Food …

Shopping on eBay just got a bit more rewarding, at least for some users of the online auctioneer’s site. On Wednesday, eBay Inc. launched a “beta” test version of eBay Bucks, a program that lets participants earn a 2 percent reward on certain items they buy… More: continued here

Plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail are so poor, a cross-party committee of MPs has said, they would even be rejected on TV’s Dragon Den. More: continued here

BOSTON, April 1 (Reuters) – U.S. package-delivery company FedEx Corp said on Wednesday a Washington state court ruled the people who handle its deliveries in that state are independent contractors rather than employees. A class action suit against the company’s FedEx Ground unit involving 320 workers in the state sought …

WASHINGTON, April 1 (UPI) — The U.S. Postal Service and Twentieth Century Fox Licensing and Merchandising have announced the Simpsons will soon be featured on 44-cent stamps. More: continued here

The Simpsons, America’s most enduring — or is that endearing? — dysfunctional family will be honored on their own stamps, the Postal Service announced. More: continued here

Old Post Office Plaza to open FridayBizjournals.com, NCA decade after city planners conceived of the plot of land as a park, the $8 million Old Post Office Plaza will officially open Friday. Owners of the 30000 square-foot park blamed underground debris and bad weather for the delay and cost overruns. … …

Controversial UK Government plans for part-privatisation of Royal Mail are “in pieces” after a Commons Committee said the government has not made the case for the move, and criticised the worrying lack of transparency over Lord Mandelson’s proposals. More: continued here

Food stamps better spent money than big bailoutsSouth Alabamian, ALAlong the way she applied for public assistance and was given $11 in food stamps. She stopped at a grocery after a long night of work. Exhausted, she unloaded her cart slowly, with the food stamps on the counter. The guy behind …

The Government’s controversial plan to part-privatise the Royal Mail has come under attack from a cross-party committee of MPs which complained about a ‘lack of transparency’ about the proposals. More: continued here