The Free Lance-Star food stamp lines grow CITY SERVING MORE PEOPLEThe Free Lance-Star, VALast month, departments across the state served 8522 more food stamp clients than in December. Throw in hiring freezes at Fredericksburg-area social services offices, and the result is frazzled eligibility workers, cramped waiting rooms and frustrated … More: continued here
Post Chronicle Evangeline Lilly eBay Undies (Video) & Gisele Bundchen Marries Tom …Post ChronicleThe lingerie line will be auctioned off on eBay to benefit Task Brazil, a US nonprofit organization that helps to provide housing, aid, and guidance to children and teens living on the streets of Brazil. "Here on eBay I'm offering beautiful, ……
Postal PicketingWilkes Barre Times-Leader, PAWILKES-BARRE – With horns from passing cars blaring a message of support, members of the American Postal Workers Union Local 175 conducted informational picketing Thursday on the sidewalks of the Wilkes-Barre post office. Susan Broody of Wilkes-Barre …Postal Workers Picket to Save PlantMSNBCall 2 news articles More: continued here
Food-stamp demand floods ValleyMail Tribune, ORBy JOHN DARLING Faced with layoffs and foreclosures, the number of food stamps recipients in the Rogue Valley climbed to record levels in January, with Medford showing a 13.5 percent increase compared with a year ago. Ashland climbed 8.7 percent and …Demand for food stamps continues to riseKDRVall 3 news articles…
Auctionbytes Retailers, Brand-owners Tired of Fakes & Stolen Goods on eBayAuctionbytesBy Ina Steiner This week saw the introduction of legislation in the US designed to fight the problem of stolen goods on eBay and other marketplaces, while eBay won a battle in Germany in the war that brand-owners are waging against fakes on the auction…
WWAY NewsChannel 3 Post office customers want actionAsbury Park Press, NJBy Bonnie Delaney • TOMS RIVER BUREAU • February 27, 2009 BERKELEY — About a dozen customers waited in line Thursday morning at the post office at the Holiday City at Berkeley minimall. Some people carried packages wrapped in brown paper, Express Mail …Print postage from…
ABC News Eye Opener: Feb. 27, 2009Washington Post, United StatesThe Post's Philip Rucker spent some time with the administration's "super-nerd" and Office of Management Budget director Peter Orszag (see above) and learned that with his new job "comes a sort of fame. A divorced father of two, Orszag is suddenly one …Examine the Budget DocumentNew York…
Unions to ambush Brown over Royal Mail sell-offThis is London, UKGORDON BROWN is facing an ambush from furious Labour and trade union chiefs over Business Secretary Lord Mandelson's "snake-oil salesman" plans to part-privatise Royal Mail. In a clear signal that new concessions on the deal have failed to quell the … More: continued here
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Family fears losing suburban St. Louis cave homeThe Associated PressIf they can't secure new financing, they've got a backup plan — auctioning their cave home through eBay. Bidding starts at $300000. "I get the financing, or I sell the property, or I lose everything," Curt Sleeper, a self-employed Web designer and …Cave…
Food aid sign-ups flooding Mass.Boston Globe, United StatesBy David Abel Over the past year, the number of Massachusetts residents receiving food stamps has surged 20 percent, bringing the total to more than 600000 and taxing the state's ability to serve those in need, welfare officials say. … More: continued here