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nypost.com

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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New York Times

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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Christine Smith YouTube video

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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http://www.commondreams.org, by Greg Kaufmann

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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Charlie LeDuff.

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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New York Times

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 Wall Street Journal

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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Lew Rockwell

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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AP

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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