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Obama administration openly pushing food stamps to illegals; no citizenship required, no income status checked
Documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reveal the Obama administration is actively marketing the federal food stamp program (SNAP) to illegal immigrants. A Spanish-language flyer obtainer by Judicial Watch says, "You
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Secret Files Expose Offshore’s Global Impact
Dozens of journalists sifted through millions of leaked records and thousands of names to produce ICIJ’s investigation into offshore secrecy A cache of 2.5 million files has cracked open the secrets of more than
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More than 175,000 UK companies have offshore directors
More than 175,000 UK-registered companies have used directors giving addresses in offshore jurisdictions, the Guardian has established. This raises fresh concerns about the scale of Britain's involvement in offshore secrecy arrangements. Data obtained from the
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Leaks reveal secrets of the rich who hide cash offshore
Millions of internal records have leaked from Britain's offshore financial industry, exposing for the first time the identities of thousands of holders of anonymous wealth from around the world, from presidents to plutocrats, the
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US food stamp use swells to a record 47.8 million
A record number of Americans are using food stamps, known today as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Despite official proclamations that the recession has ended and an economic recovery is underway, families are
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American Way: why it’s become clear that Obama’s White House is open to the rich and closed to the poor
President Obama's pledges to open up the White House are going in reverse, says Mark McKinnon
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46,609,072 People on Food Stamps in 2012; Record 47,791,996 in December
DANIEL HALPER| weeklystandard Nearly a quarter of the people living in Washington, D.C. are on the program. On Friday, the United States Department of Agriculture quietly released new statistics related to the food stamps
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America Is Not Broke! We Are Being Lied To!
Contrary to what the power brokers would have you believe in order that you’ll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life that people live in a third world country,
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Obama: ‘No doubt’ we need more taxes
US President Obama on Sunday insisted that the nation needs additional tax revenue, some of which the government could acquire by closing or reducing loopholes and deductions. “There is no doubt we need additional revenue,
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15 Signs That You Better Get Prepared For The Obama Recession Of 2013
You better get ready, because there are a whole host of signs that economic trouble is on the horizon. U.S. economic growth slipped into negative territory during the fourth quarter of 2012.
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World’s 100 richest earned enough in 2012 to end global poverty 4 times over
The world's 100 richest people earned a stunning total of $240 billion in 2012 – enough money to end extreme poverty worldwide four times over, Oxfam has revealed, adding that the global economic crisis
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70-year-old Charity Told to Stop Feeding Homeless in Seattle
Feeding the homeless is being banned in many major cities in America. Seattle is just the latest city to enforce restrictions on charities that feed the homeless. The Bread of Life Mission has been feeding
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35 Statistics About The Working Poor In America That Will Blow Your Mind
In America tonight, tens of millions of men and women will struggle to get to sleep because they are stressed out about not making enough money even though they are working as hard as
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Obama digs heels in, refuses to negotiate debt ceiling
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday rejected any negotiations with Republicans over raising the nation's borrowing limit, accusing his opponents of trying to extract a ransom for not ruining the U.S. economy in
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Conspiracy Theories About Your Money
Modern Slavery Slavery still exists, unseen, in modern day America. Thanks to student loans and mortgages, many people are hounded by creditors, losing their livelihood and finding it impossible to save for the future. Forced
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Why are we pretending?
Why are we pretending? Pretending that elections in 2014 might change things, that elections in 2016 could too? Even now the Republicans and their talk show supporters are flailing about as if there is
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Infographic: So You Want To Retire? Five Disturbing Statistics About Retirement
To all Americans in their twenties, thirties, forties, or even fifties, naively looking forward to their retirement, we have two words: "good luck." One look at the flow chart below and we can't help but
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These 11 States Now Have More People On Welfare Than Are Employed
"Death Spiral," proclaims a chain mail that an Austin reader brought to our attention Dec. 21, 2012. That’s the headline on a U.S. map with 11 states highlighted and accompanying text that says, "These 11
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If Obama Can Just Create A Trillion Dollar Coin, Then Why Do We Have To Pay Taxes?
If Barack Obama can "solve" the debt ceiling crisis by printing up some trillion dollar coins, then why does the federal government need our money? As another debt ceiling showdown approaches, many in
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The Final Nail In America’s Financial Coffin
truther May 31, 2013 6Our government is broke, in fact they are beyond Treasury Secretary Jack Lew broke since the 2008-09 decision was made to cover the derivative debt losses of the criminal banksters. As a result of their financial
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