The number of low-income Monmouth and Ocean counties residents using food stamps and seeking assistance…

The post office is holding out a friendly paw to dogs, and cats too.A new set of 10 first-class stamps featuring cheerful dogs and cats will go on sale nationwide today, designed to promote adoption of animals from shelters. The 44-cent stamps are part of a “Stamps to the Rescue” campaign, not only to encourage pet adoptions but also raising funds to buy food for animals in shelters. AP …

Stamps to help buy food for shelter-housed animals are on sale at post offices nationwide.

Let them eat baked potatoes. Maybe I better explain. I came across an interesting article at The Daily Caller Web site: more college kids are qualifying for food stamps.

The economic downturn and ongoing under-employment in the US have resulted in a big increase in the number of Americans using food stamps. Once considered a social safety net for only the lowest income Americans, the use of federally funded food stamps has grown dramatically over the last two years. As VOA’s Mil Arcega reports, new government data shows one in eight Americans now rely on food stamps to make ends meet.

www.libertopia.org The reason that political action will not work is that it is simply a numbers game — here is the proof. Slightly over half of all Americans 52.6 percent now receive significant income from government programs, according to an analysis by Gary Shilling, an economist in Springfield, NJ That’s up from 49.4 percent in 2000 and far above the 28.3 percent of Americans in 1950. 1 in 5 Americans hold a government job or a job reliant on federal spending. A similar number receive Social Security or a government pension. About 19 million others get food stamps 2 million get subsidized housing 5 million get education grants. For all these categories, Mr. Shilling counted dependents as well as the direct recipients of government income. (also, free daycare from state schools) Approximately 85% of the state’s 235000 employees (not including higher education employees) are unionized. As the governor noted during his $83 billion budget roll-out, over the past decade pension costs for public employees increased 2000%. State revenues increased only 24% over the same period. A Schwarzenegger adviser wrote in the San Jose Mercury News in the past few days that, “This year alone, $3 billion was diverted to pension costs from other programs.” There are now more than 15000 government retirees statewide who receive pensions that exceed $100000 a year, according to the California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility. Many of these retirees are former police officers …

CARBONDALE – Proposed legislation seeks to make locally grownfresh produce and meats available to food stamp recipients. HouseBill 4756 introduced by state Rep. LaShawn Ford, D-Chicago, wouldcreate the Farmer’s Market Technology Improvement Act, which wouldcreate a fund to assist vendors at USDA approved farmer’smarkets in purchasing equipment needed to process ElectronicDebit Transfers.

DALLAS (AP) The food stamp program in Texas is digging out of trouble after it was swamped by hurricanes, a failed privatization effort and cuts to the work force that handles claims, officials said. The most recent federal figures show that…

She may have one of the most famous last names in America, with an ex-President as an uncle and a Secretary of State as an aunt, but 18-year-old Macy Clinton is struggling to keep her head above water financially so much so that she is actually on food stamps! Bill Clinton Hospitalized