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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

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    Gridlock Stalls Recovery

    AUGUST 4, 2011 5:35PM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: politics, finance, stock market, political paralysis, intentional gridlock, legislative gridlock, policy paralysis, dow jones falls 500 points, market correction, republicans, bill bonner, daily reckoning, starve the beast, social security, snap, debt ceiling crisis, faa reauthorization crisis, american legislative exchange council, alec, recession, demand recession, political paralysis

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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

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