Christian Science Monitor As hunger rises in US, so do creative ways to helpChristian Science Monitor, MA –3 hours agoThat's also prompted a call for federal and state officials to increase the amount of money for food stamps and to make it easier for people to access them. … More: continued here
Royal Mail is facing a pension deficit of £7bn and needs to implement sweeping efficiencies, a report to the business secretary, Lord Mandelson, and the Post Office minister, Pat MacFadden, will say. A review of postal services conducted by Richard Hooper, former deputy chairman of the regulator Ofcom, will reveal a deficit so large that…
Remember the Ferrari Enzo wrecked by Eddie Griffin last year? It’s all fixed up now, and the man who brought the car back to life is now battling legions of flake-a-zoid deadbeat eBay bidders and… More: continued here
The Morgan Scott Project in Deer Run, Tenn., offers a variety of services to impoverished people living in the Appalachian Mountains. Among people living in that region 29 percent live below the poverty line and 18 percent use food stamps…. More: continued here
The internet entrepreneur behind an online video game inviting users to throw footwear at US President George W Bush says he sold the property on eBay in just four days. More: continued here
NOXEN TWP. — Clutching protest signs and cups of coffee, residents gathered around Cathie Pauley as she shouted through a bullhorn, perched on the steps of the Noxen Post Office mobile trailer. More: continued here
This is Money Royal Mail sell-off 'as early as April'This is Money, UK –14 minutes agoThe controversial part-privatisation of Royal Mail could be completed by April after the government appointed investment bank UBS to help secure outside … More: continued here
Maryland hospitals have stepped up debt collection, sometimes from the poor, and Gov. O’Malley demands review W illie Mae White began worrying how she’d pay the $36,224 bill from Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center a few weeks after having emergency brain surgery. She lived off Social Security and food stamps after decades working as a…
COLLINSVILLE — It may not be much, but the people of Collinsville are ready to fight for their little post office. More: continued here
DOHA: The Arab League has approved in principle the transfer of the Arab Stamps Museum from its present seat at the Arab League General Secretariat to Doha. More: continued here