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• Weekend Reads

  
  Kens Therapy — Authority: 115
  Just realized its been two weeks since I did a Weekend Reads. Wow I just started back to the blog and already I am getting behind. I think your all understand with finals and all. Well this Weekend Read is kind of a 3 week summary of my non-school readings, which hasnt been a lot but still interesting I think. ...
  20 hours ago

• Retailers Accept Food Stamps from More Consumers

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 759
  Food stamps arent what they used to be. In this recession, theyre appearing in the hands of people who never thought they would need them. And retailers are adjusting to that "new normal." Some stores have had to change they way to do business to accommodate shoppers on food stamps, Reuters reports . Theyre staffing ...
  1 day ago

• Breakfast In America

  
  The Awl — Authority: 781
  More than ten percent of Americans rely on food stamps. Tina Contraeras is one of them: “Unemployed and on disability benefits, Contraeras, 45, has custody of her grandchildren, ages 2 and 3. She has resorted to circling the first of the month on her calendar so that when her grandchildren are hungry, she can ...
  1 day ago

• Food Stamps vs. Cash Welfare

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 750
  By Tad DeHaven A couple of weeks ago I discussed a New York Times report on soaring food stamp use. Yesterday, the New York Times reported that cash welfare use in New York under the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program started to rise more recently. The Times calls this “something of ...
  1 day ago

• Fingerprinting For Food Stamps Under Scrutiny

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 166
  The Obama administration may be trying to mount a case against digital finger-imaging of federal food assistance applicants, a practice four states are implementing in order to combat fraud. Anti-hunger workers say it discriminates against the countrys poor. » E-Mail This      » Add to Del.icio.us
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• Keiser Report ?5: Markets! Finance! Scandal!

  
  TheMispricing — Authority: 141
  This week Max Keiser as well as co-host, Stacy Herbert, demeanour during food stamps in a US as well as how drug income saved a tellurian promissory note system. Keiser additionally speaks to Charles Goyette, writer of NY Times bestseller, The Dollar Meltdown.
  1 day ago

• Fingerprinting of Food Stamp Applicants Raises Questions

  
  City Room — Authority: 783
  Advocates have continued to raise questions about New Yorks requirement that food stamp applicants be fingerprinted.
  2 days ago

• Welfare Rolls Grow in City, but Increase Is Modest

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  As the number of New Yorkers on food stamps and Medicaid has soared, the increase in cash welfare recipients has been smaller.
  2 days ago

• How can I change my diet to promote weight loss?

  
  Smart for Life Cookie Diet — Authority: 133
  Okay, I want to lose 5-10 pounds by January, for my school semi-formal. I’m 140 lbs now, and 120 is my summer goal, so I think 135 is a good winter goal. Anyways, I’m going to be starting a work-out plan after tomorrow, so I want to modify my diet too. This is a normal day for me (food-wise): Breakfast: Usually a ...
  3 days ago

• Trip’s morning reading: Missouri, how could you?

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 585
  Missouri officials acknowledged Monday that they  reported inflated numbers of food stamp recipients to the federal government , calling into question millions of dollars of bonuses paid to the state for running one of the nation’s top-flight programs, according to the Kansas City Star. Food stamp use is up across ...
  4 days ago

• Is There Something I Can Do to Prepare For Not Paying My Bills? – Nancy

  
  How to Get Out of Debt - Free Help — Authority: 157
  Nancy wrote to me through the GetOutOfDebt.org site and asked the following question. If you have a credit or debt question you’d like to ask just use the online form. I’m happy to help you totally for free. Income from the GetOutOfDebt.org site advertising is used to help alleviate poverty. If you would like to ...
  4 days ago

• Stay Hungry

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 142
  The Washington Post’s Amy Goldstein had a thoughtful piece this weekend on the federal government’s efforts to combat hunger so far in the Obama administration. As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama made the seemingly impossible pledge to end childhood hunger in the U.S. — impossible, that is, because ...
  5 days ago

• Are Food Stamps Enough?

  
  Your Call — Authority: 124
  Will the food stamp program be able to meet the rising demand? On the next Your Call, well have a conversation about food stamps. More Americans than ever -- one in eight -- depends on food stamps to meet their basic food needs. How does the program work? And who qualifies? Join us live at 11 or drop us an email at ...
  5 days ago

• PRICE FIXING

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 542
  The government picks up the spending”outlay” slack for its citizens in order to keep the consumer GDP alive. Lets face it … How much lower would home prices be and and how many more jobs would be lost if the US government did not pay out Social Security, Medicare and Unemployment and Food Stamps? Lets take ...
  5 days ago

• Dramatic Rise in Elderly Seeking Food Assistance

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 441
  Found the following report in The Huffington Post. The trend reported here is one weve noticed in Dallas at our Resource Center. ALBANY, N.Y. — Older Americans who were raised on stories of the Great Depression and acquired lifelong habits of thrift now find themselves crowding soup kitchens and food pantries in ...
  6 days ago

• American Hunger

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 441
  “It’s embarrassing,” said Mr. [Greg]Dawson, 29, a taciturn man with a wispy goatee who is so uneasy about the monthly benefit of $300 that he has not told his parents. “I always thought it was people trying to milk the system. But we just felt like we really needed the help right now.” A group of friends of ...
  6 days ago

• Great Depression II Alert: One out of every eight Americans, received food stamps in September

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 542
  Food Stamps Go to a Record 37.2 Million, USDA Says By Alan Bjerga Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) — A record 37.2 million people, or about one out of every eight Americans, received food stamps in September, as the recession drove a surging jobless rate, according to a government report. Recipients of the subsidy for ...
  6 days ago

• Someone to protect you.

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 460
  Someone to protect you. Carolyn Hileman The blood on the ground, the flag covered coffin, the grieving family it is all done for you, it does not matter the color of your skin, what church, synagogue or mosque you attend. It does not matter if you make two dollars an hour or two hundred; it is still done for you. It ...
  1 week ago

• McDonalds $1 breakfast menu banks on Americas love of cheap meat

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 759
  Filed under: Company News , Economy , McDonalds Breakfast for a dollar will become more varied than ever at McDonalds ( MCD ) restaurants early in January, a company spokesperson said Thursday. The choices, including the sausage McMuffin, sausage burrito, sausage biscuit, small coffee and a hash brown, will ...
  1 week ago

• Food Stamps Go to a Record 37.2 Million

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 142
  A record 37.2 million people, or about one out of every eight Americans, received food stamps in September, as the recession drove a surging jobless rate, according to a government report.Recipients of the subsidy for retail-food purchases climbed 18 percent from a year earlier, according to a statement posted today ...
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