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...economic growth, 32.4 million people live at or below the federal poverty level ($9,069 for a family of three), and many of them rely regularly on food banks and soup kitchens to supplement their diets. Among the reasons cited for the high level of hunger: restrictions on food-stamp eligibility and the failure to raise the minimum wage...
...Brown, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, says that while hunger in the U.S. is nowhere near Third World levels, poor families regularly "miss meals, cut down and go without for a couple of days." The Agriculture Department attacked the report's accuracy, saying that food-stamp spending has risen 12% since...
...epidemic of hunger spreads to working class Americans, sweeping reforms of food stamp programs and welfare and the expansion of school meal outlays are badly needed, according to a report released yesterday by the School of Public Health...
...other 300 imperfect candlesticks? According to Charles Yeager, Washington correspondent for the weekly Linn's Stamp News, those rarities are circulating somewhere in the American heartland. "If I lived in the Midwest," says Yeager, "I'd go down to my local post office and have a look...
Conspiracy theorists can have a field day with Stampscam. Was it mere coincidence that 100 rare stamps were dispatched to the McLean post office, which is used by the CIA, while the other 300 misprinted candlesticks were shipped hundreds of miles away? Was it further coincidence that of all the customers at the post office, a CIA employee happened to buy the valuable issue? Why stop there: Could it be that profits from the stamp sales were being diverted to the contras? Or was the money being used to fund "off-the- shelf" covert activities? What did the Postmaster General...