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Bill Proposed To Allow Voting Without US Citizenship
Once upon a time, there was a saying "no taxation without representation." Well, in America's transition to an utopia of French or even Venezuelan caliber, for half the population taxation became an anachronism from
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14 people made more money than Food Stamp budget for 50,000,000
For the second year in a row, America's richest 14 individuals made more from their annual investments than the $80 billion provided for people in need of food. Nearly half of the food-deprived are
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11 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Buy With Food Stamps
Food stamps have become a major facet of the American system. And as the number of welfare recipients increases, so does the number of items that can be purchased with a food stamp Electronic
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How Big Banks Are Cashing In On Food Stamps
Many benefit programs have gone high tech with debit cards and J.P. Morgan Chase and others are making a pretty penny charging users fees. What is there to be done
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US Congress to cut food stamps by $9 billion
Lawmakers in both chambers of US Congress have reportedly reached a deal to cut almost $9 billion from the food stamp program on which nearly 47 million Americans rely to afford food. The cuts to
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How Hunger Makes Sheeple Support The Nanny State
People who are hungry are more inclined to support of the welfare state policies that help the poor, new research suggests. The extraordinary results of a Danish study suggest that the state of our bodies
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Americans headed over ‘food stamp cliff’
Millions of people are in for a shock at the end of the week when their food stamp benefits will be cut across the board. There is little chance that Congress will act to avert
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Why are 47 million Americans on food stamps? It’s the recession — mostly.
There's a fairly basic question at the core of the current food-stamp debate in Congress. Why has the program grown so rapidly over the past few years — to the point where 47 million
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Households On Foodstamps Rise To New Record High: More Americans Live In Poverty Than The Population Of Spain
There was much discussion of Friday's "disappointing" non-farm payrolls goal-seeked, seasonally adjusted, X-13-ARIMA conceived jobs "number." The conclusion was that it showed an economy which one year after the start of QEternity was growing
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Food Stamps May Be Split From Farm Bill In House
Republicans are making more noise about dropping food stamps from farm legislation that previously failed to pass the House of Representatives because of disagreement over cuts in nutrition assistance
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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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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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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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US government spent $80.4 bn on food stamps in 2012
The US government has spent a record USD 80.4 billion on food stamps, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that helps Americans who cannot afford to buy food
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Shadow banking hits $67 trillion globally: task force
The shadow banking system - blamed for aggravating the financial crisis - grew to a new high of $67 trillion globally last year, a top regulatory group said, calling for tighter control of the
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Explosive video indictment of Obama rocks YouTube
In what could be the most stunning video indictment of President Obama and his administration’s policies this election year, a YouTube video reveals the fallout of the “hope” and “change” Obama promised in 2008. YouTube
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Food Stamp Nation: What a Modern Day Bread Line Looks Like (Infographic)
With digital technology being used for all manner of government distributions, it’s difficult to overtly distinguish between the severity of the Great Depression of the 1930′s and today’s economic crisis. But just because we don’t
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Reality: More People Requested Emergency Food Assistance Than Found Jobs
Whether you believe the 7.8% unemployment statistic released by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics two days after the Presidential debate last week are legitimate or not, there are several key data points that
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US Foodstamp Usage Rises To New Record High
While the 0.4% perfectly unmanipulated and totally coincidental swing in the unemployment rate in an Obama favorable direction one month before the election came at a prime time moment for the market, one hour
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June Foodstamp Recipients Hit All Time High As Three Times As Many Americans Enter Poverty As Find Jobs
Following a brief period in which it seemed that US foodstamp recipients may have peaked, with those living in poverty maxing out at 46.514 million in December 2011, and then declining modestly for the
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