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• Read this article carefully…, If it does not post in its entirety, go to Huffington Post.Com…

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  Elizabeth Warren Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel created to oversee the banking bailouts Posted: December 3, 2009 10:00 AM Can you imagine an America without a strong middle class? If you can, would it still be America as we know it? Today, one in five Americans is unemployed, underemployed or just plain ...
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• No Free Lunches: Getting Food Aid to Eligible Families

  
  Economix — Authority: 741
  Low participation rates in food aid programs for the poor show problems in the ways states administer this important social safety net, an economist writes.
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• Basic Economics - here is why California is broke! Let me explain…

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  There are two families. Joe Legal and Jose Illegal - Both families have two parents, two children, and they live in California. Joe Legal works in construction, has a Social Security number, and makes $25.00 per hour with payroll taxes deducted - Jose Illegal also works construction, has NO Social Security number and ...
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• OctoMom Is Doing Her Homework (Photos)

  
  Backseat Cuddler — Authority: 593
  Yesterday (December 5), Nadya Suleman aka Octomom was seen inside Elegant Nails in La Habra, California getting a little R&R while having her hands and feet pampered.   I don’t know how she has the time for mani/pedi hour, but hey…if I had 14 kids, I’d try an escape here and there too.  It looks like [...]
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• Daring to choose small govt, big war and the patriarchy

  
  Norwegianity — Authority: 496
  Another very special column from Katherine Kersten this morning. Keywords include: oil oozing glare with disgust sticky handprints shill But that’s  just Kersten’s description of some nasty ad running against Michele Bachmann. Here are the words Katherine uses to describe Bachmann’s enemies: smear ...
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• Letters: Food Stamps and the Tough Economy

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  
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• U.S. economy 2009

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 137
  NYT  Financial crisis one year later ;  Joseph Cassano, former head of A.I.G.’s Financial Products unit: The Man Who Crashed the World ; Reuters special coverage Wall Street pay U.S. Economy Lost Only 11,000 Jobs in November Floyd Norris: The Job Drought May Be Over The report on Friday looks very ...
  3 days ago

• The Surge We Need At Home

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 142
  merica is a mess. Unemployment is over 10 percent, while the effective unemployment rate—which also includes the underemployed—is more like 19.2 percent. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  3 days ago

• American Hunger

  
  Change the Wind — Authority: 423
  “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 ...
  4 days ago

• Ford Foundation to Assist Public Benefit Programs

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  The Ford Foundation committed $80 million to strengthen public programs and policies aimed at helping the unemployed and low-wage workers.
  5 days ago

• An improving economy? Ask people on Food Stamps!

  
  Food Politics — Authority: 575
  I keep reading that the economy is getting better but I think anyone who says this must be talking about fat cats on Wall Street.   As for everyone else, take a look at the shocking piece about the Food Stamp program that the New York Times ran on its front page on Sunday . More than 36 million Americans qualify ...
  5 days ago

• Twelve policies that undermine civil society

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 474
  I noticed this “web memo” on the Heritage Foundation web site. Basically, they just list the twelve policies and then write a couple of short paragraphs on how each policy negatively impacts civil society. This is a good introduction to Christians who want to think through whether some government policies that ...
  5 days ago

• Economic news on the street

  
  Dangerous Intersection — Authority: 479
  Avert your eyes from Wall Street to see what is happening to America. These statistics are part of a terrifying article by Elizabeth Warren , who serves as the Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel created to oversee the banking bailouts: Today, one in five Americans is unemployed, underemployed or just plain ...
  6 days ago

• Bayou pic of the day: A map of Jefferson County we should all see

  
  The Bayou — Authority: 138
  With the recent highly publicized issues over distribution here in Texas, these food stamp numbers are both stunning and sad. You can find the interactive map here, which details -- county by county -- the percentage of food stamp usage in America."A program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one ...
  6 days ago

• Why Food Stamps Matter

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 437
  As government food aid is extended to more than ten percent of the population and as much as 40 percent of children in some towns, it’s odd that we’re not hearing well-fed politicians talking about a “government takeover of the food supply.” Jason DeParle and Robert Gebeloff of the New York Times have done ...
  6 days ago

• Rise in food stamp cases shows that many more New Mexicans are going hungry

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 591
  Photo by Mills Baker Here’s another sign of how the poor economy is affecting New Mexico: state data show that 70,000 more New Mexicans are using food stamps than just a year ago. According to data from the  New Mexico Human Services Department , individual use of the federal Supplemental Nutritional Assistance ...
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• Foreclosures, Food Stamps and No Jobs – Where is Our President?

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 146
  Where is President Obama?Obama has been talking about a lot of things, lately. Like long-term structural changes to our health insurance markets, and cap and trade bills to address global issues of climate change. And of course there was the TARP bailout for the financial sector, the stimulus package, cash for ...
  6 days ago

• One In Four American Children Relies On Food Stamps

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 553
  20% rise in the food stamp program since the recession hit 2 years agoOne in eight people is now taking advantage of the nationwide subsidised scheme, with 20,000 more signing up each day, according to research by the New York Times. It found that in 239 counties, at least 25 per cent of residents collected food [...]
  6 days ago

• Food stamp program is expanding by about 20,000 out-of-work and underemployed people a day

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 142
  The federal program now feeds one in eight adults and one in four children, with more than 36 million people using inconspicuous plastic cards to buy staples, Concannon told The Washington Post.…The program is expanding by about 20,000 out-of-work and underemployed people a day, the Post reported, noting the growth ...
  6 days ago

• A Food Stamp Menu

  
  Forever In Hell — Authority: 500
  food insecurity, food stamps, poverty, [trigger warning: for those with ED, I will be reviewing nutrition facts for some crappy foods. If this will trigger you in any way, please to avoid the following post.] Wallet Pop asked a family on food stamps for a weeks menu . It is . . . revealing. This is a family of ...
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