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The number of New York City residents receiving food stamps more than doubled over the past decade under Mayor Bloomberg, according to data released yesterday.
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Louisiana’s State Health Dept forced a homeless shelter to destroy $8,000 worth of deer meat because it was donated from a hunter organization. The Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission lost 1,600 pounds of venison because the
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[god I'm linking Michael Savage--time to retire] In fiscal year 2011, between food stamps, housing support, child care, Medicaid and other benefits, the average U.S. household below the poverty line received $168.00 a day in government support.
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States are increasingly alarmed at Washington’s latest fiscal battle, fearing that the impasse could saddle them with across-the-board spending cuts that threaten to slow their fragile recoveries or thrust them back into recession.
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Since taking office in 2009, food stamp rolls under President Barack Obama have risen to more than 47 million people in America, exceeding the population of Spain.
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Welfare benefits will be slashed by ¥74 billion over a three-year period starting from fiscal 2013, after a government panel found that some people are making more on the dole than the average low-income person who is not spends on living costs, it w
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The amount of money spent on welfare programs equals, when converted to cash payments, about "$168 per day for every household in poverty," the minority side of the Senate Budget Committee finds. Here's a chart detailing the committee's findings:
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Sorry for the outburst, but just when I was thinking that the federal government couldn’t get any sillier, any more kleptomaniac, or any more wasteful, I discovered the Fathers Supporting Breastfeeding initiative
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Federal welfare spending has grown by 32 percent over the past four years
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More than one in seven Americans are on food stamps, but the federal government wants even more people to sign up for the safety net program.
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There are more Americans dependent on the federal government than ever before in U.S. history.
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26 Chicago Public School employees are accused of lying on federal school lunch forms, allowing their 45 kids to receive free or reduced-price lunches at 40 schools across the district. 12 principals were removed from their schools
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1 in 7 Americans are on food stamps, but the government is pushing to enroll more — in many instances working to overcome Americans’ “pride,” self-reliance or failure to see a need. “Our common goal is to increase participation
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“I made the statement, ‘do you think myself, that lady and that gentlemen should pay for your cigarettes?’ and he responded ‘yes,’ ” Whiton said.
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Who will speak for the rights of the unborn now that Rick Santorum is gone from the race?
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A nightclub in Montgomery, Ala. is raising eyebrows by hosting a “Food Stamp Friday” party on April 6 that the Friday night cover charge will be just $5 if a “food stamp card” is shown upon arrival.
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7-minute video for Christians, those who value the teachings of Jesus, or anyone who thinks it's compassionate for government to help with anything-food, medical care, education, foreign aid, disasters, or any social/humanitarian need.
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Tatiana Pineros is a man by birth and a woman by choice.
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A stunning report released by the University of Michigan’s National Poverty Center reveals that the number of US households living on less than $2 per person per day
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Clayton downplayed her wealth, saying she took the $1 million in a lump sump, which meant about half immediately went to taxes. "I feel that it's OK because I mean, I have no income and I have bills to pay," she said. "I have two houses." Her s
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DRIVING THROUGH JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN, IN A DOWNPOUR, looking past the wipers and through windows fogged up with cigarette smoke, Main Street appears to be melting away.
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Yet this year, as in each of the past three years, Mr. Gulbranson, 57, is counting on a payment of several thousand dollars from the federal government, a subsidy for working families called the earned-income tax credit. He has signed up his three sc
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The American public's dependence on the federal government shot up 23% in just two years under President Obama, with 67 million now relying on some federal program, according to a newly released study by the Heritage Foundation.
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Federal prosecutors in West Virginia are investigating a former Social Security Administration judge who awarded disability benefits in nearly every case that crossed his desk, according to people familiar with the investigation.
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Congress passed a bill that included spending on disaster relief. Clearly unconstitutional, like 99% of everything Congress does. Obama will certainly sign the bill. There was a time when a Democratic president would do no such thing.
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Gov. Rick Snyder on Tuesday signed into law a stricter, four-year lifetime limit on cash welfare benefits, prompting advocates for the poor to warn that tens of thousands of residents will find themselves without cash assistance on Oct. 1. Snyder
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Florida's nascent drug testing program for welfare recipients has been in effect for just over a month, and already it is representing a significant cost to the state.
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James Bovard’s piece criticizing the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Section 8 housing (”Raising Hell in Subsidized Housing,” Aug. 18) viciously scapegoats families who receive housing subsidies.
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Today I was accosted by someone begging for money. I know… big deal, right? It’s not an unusual occurrence anywhere in the world, especially here in the Philippines.
