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    • 40 Ratings
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    WHEN MY WIFE WAS ON FOOD STAMPS--NOW 1/2 OF OUR CHILDREN ARE

    AUGUST 7, 2010 3:33AM

    By Jonathan Wolfman


    Topics: costco, food stamps, welfare, business, economy, family, food/drink, health, news, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 49 Ratings
    • 8570 Views
    • 64 Comments
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    The Real Food Stamp Challenge: Compassion

    FEBRUARY 9, 2009 1:15PM

    By Heather Michon


    Topics: compassion, moralizing, fraud, underground economy, welfare, food, poverty, food stamps

    • Editor's Pick
    • 22 Ratings
    • 2506 Views
    • 52 Comments
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    Food Stamps Soar, Jobs Offshore

    NOVEMBER 11, 2010 8:27AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: muckrock food stamp article, economy, finance, recession, economic meltdown, food stamps, snap, supplmentary nutrition assistance program, growth in food stamps, polaris, offshoring, manufacturing, recovery, hunger in america, whirlpool, dell, pipestone wind turbine plant, suzlon, minneapolis star tribune, “the old world”, india, china, brazil, atvs, u.s. manufacturing in mexico, economic policy institute, massey energy, job-based economy, ted c. fishman, “polaris exec defends plan to shift some manufacturing to mexico”, “numbers on food stamps are soaring”, “in u.s., 14% rely on food stamps”, “these families shop when aid arrives”, new york times, wall street journal

    • Editor's Pick
    • 26 Ratings
    • 4709 Views
    • 36 Comments
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    Welfare and Cigarettes

    JULY 9, 2012 9:08AM

    By Livia Gershon


    Topics: nashua, new hampshire, welfare, food stamps, ebt, snap, tanf, william o'brien, working poor

    • 31 Ratings
    • 825 Views
    • 35 Comments
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    Obama versus Obama

    AUGUST 20, 2010 1:41AM

    By old new lefty


    Topics: barack obama, potus, george soros, reflexivity, president of the united states, wall st., community organizing, food stamps, citigroup, timothy geithner, larry summers, robert rubin, news, politics

    • 18 Ratings
    • 1419 Views
    • 32 Comments
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    Dying for Food Stamps (final update): Children Dead

    DECEMBER 7, 2011 11:06AM

    By Erica K


    Topics: american tragedy, ohio, zanesville, texas, laredo, poor families, welfare, system, american government, food stamps

    • 27 Ratings
    • 1473 Views
    • 32 Comments
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    Stop! I Think I Want Off

    AUGUST 4, 2011 3:25PM

    By L in the Southeast


    Topics: hopeless outlook, famine in kenya, food stamps, conservative self-involvement, despair, future is not very enticing

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 4916 Views
    • 30 Comments
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    I Was Turned Down For Food Stamps

    MAY 18, 2011 12:00AM

    By bonnie bernstein


    Topics: ticket, happy thanksgiving, thanksgiving, 911, attack, metal detector, inspection sticker, old tanta, new york city, president obama, american, rasmussen report, hoarding food, food pantry, salvation army, divorced, president bush, walmart, hudson valley, new york, hyundai, social services, mercedes benz, caprice, chevy, food stamps, politics, health, food/drink, family, crime, bonnie bernstein, politics, police, economy

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 3503 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    Food Stamps Prime the Economic Pump

    FEBRUARY 11, 2010 11:16AM

    By Mick Arran


    Topics: economy, welfare, food stamps, poverty, hunger, bankster greed

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 2813 Views
    • 20 Comments
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    Catholic Ryan Needs to do Penance for Sins

    AUGUST 15, 2012 10:30AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: poliitcs, economics, paul ryan, ayn rand, mitt romney, right wing, capitalism free market, catholic church, sin, atheism, immorality, ryan budget, paul ryan, objectivism, conservatism, nuns on a bus, charity, compassion, tea party, christian fundamentalism, christianity, georgetown university, laissez faire, supply side economics, gospel of love, jesus christ, william f. buckley jr., republican party, democratic party, president obama, fiscal conservative, social safety net, tax cuts, food stamps, poverty, free market, atlas shrugged

    • 19 Ratings
    • 578 Views
    • 20 Comments
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    The Struggle to Eat

    AUGUST 3, 2011 10:15PM

    By toritto


    Topics: business, economy, food/drink, health, politics, food stamps

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 1323 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    The turkey line

    DECEMBER 12, 2011 6:47PM

    By LeslieCA


    Topics: thanksgiving, food stamps, federal aid, gratitude

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 1093 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    Life on Food Stamps I

    NOVEMBER 20, 2008 9:23PM

    By Mumbletypeg


    Topics: winter, food, food stamps, depression, poverty

    • 12 Ratings
    • 539 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    For Fernsy: My First Post , Which I Never Finished

    AUGUST 9, 2011 10:50AM

    By Mumbletypeg


    Topics: poverty, depression, food stamps

    • Editor's Pick
    • 16 Ratings
    • 4112 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    An American Tragedy in Texas; December, 2011

    DECEMBER 16, 2011 3:57PM

    By Laura Wilkerson


    Topics: murder, suicide, hostage situation, texas, laredo, rick perry, anita perry, poverty, food stamps, mental illness, rachelle grimmer, timothy grimmer, ramie grimmer, facebook

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 1107 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    The Mom Job

    AUGUST 23, 2011 9:27AM

    By Livia Gershon


    Topics: nashua, twins, food stamps, sahm, stay at home mom, disability

    • 8 Ratings
    • 716 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    19%: the True Unemployment Number

    SEPTEMBER 25, 2012 5:10PM

    By Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall


    Topics: austerity, depression, food stamps, long term unemployed, mortimer zuckerman, recession, social security disability, unemployment, us news and world report, wall street journal

    • 11 Ratings
    • 528 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    Middle Class Americans, Where are They Now ?

    AUGUST 2, 2010 3:11PM

    By Lynn Lyra


    Topics: news, family, bills, employment, jobs, people, food stamps, economy, middle class, the american dream

    • 7 Ratings
    • 275 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    Welfare "Corrupt?"

    JUNE 5, 2013 12:31PM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: new deal, propaganda, great depression, suicide bombers, middle east, bibi netanyahu, west bank, president clinton, government dependence, corruption, dick cheney, george w bush, usaid, bechtel, iraq, cost overruns, defense spending, haliburton, newt gingrich, franklin d roosevelt, social security, paranoid style, president obama, poverty, capitalism, unemployment, economics, boston globe, jeff jacoby, fraud, food stamps, welfare, economics, politics

    • 10 Ratings
    • 536 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    Sad Woman Who May Not have been Homeless

    AUGUST 12, 2012 12:08AM

    By Francesca Biller


    Topics: 2012 presidential elections, sad woman, francesca biller, "homeless, "please help with food", mitt romney, the welfare states, cardboard sign, cardboard box, so damn fat, fast food, junk food, poverty, thank you, food stamps, dog, mini malls, homeless dog, intersection, air conditioned cars, very bad luck five course meals, garbage bag, stigma of poverty, human being, strangers, welfare to work program

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