Today is Tuesday, May 13, the 134th day of 2008. There are 232 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 13, 1918, the first U.S. airmail stamps, featuring a picture of a Curtiss JN-4 biplane, were introduced with a face value of 24 cents. (On a few of the stamps, the biplane was printed upside-down; the “inverted Jenny,” as it came to be called, instantly became a collector’s …
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JASON DEPARLE and ROBERT M. GEBELOFF The number of Americans reporting food stamps as their only income soared 50 percent over the past two years. More: continued here
US Food-Stamp Use Reaches Record 45.345 Million, USDA SaysBusinessWeekOct. 3 (Bloomberg) — The number of Americans receiving food stamps reached a record 45.345 million in July, the government said. The number was 0.4 percent higher than in June and 8.4 percent more than a year earlier, the US Department … More: continued here
Toledo Blade Food stamp challenge: Could you eat on $23 a week?Fremont News MessengerThe average Ohio food stamp recipient gets $4.60 per day to spend on food, said Colleen Stoker, spokeswoman for the agency. The word "supplemental" is in the formal name of the food stamp program (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), …Ohio Challenge: Can…
Food stamps: The most efficient stimulus?WalletPopThe last time I applied for food stamps was 2004. I'd just been laid off and found I was pregnant with my second child, the same week (oops). … More: continued here
COMMENTARY | Michigan House representatives nixed foods stamps for cigarettes, alcohol, lottery tickets and gambling money, yesterday. Welfare recipients can’t use Bridge cards to get cash from ATMs near casinos either. Yes, you read that correctly. Your eyes did not deceive you. Michiganders have been getting vice money from their food stamps, aka EBT cards….
TPM GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's commentsThe Seattle TimesAfter reading that Newt Gingrich was quoted as saying “would you rather your children had food stamps or paychecks?” [“Gingrich, Santourum accused of biased remarks,” Nation and World, seattletimes.com, Jan 6], I could not sit back with out writing to …Jon Stewart Blasts Newt Gingrich's 'African Americans…