The Illinois Department of Human Services is offering food assistance to people still cleaning up from the damaging floods at the end of July.

Families affected by last month’s flooding can qualify for the equivalent of food stamps.

The Capital Area Food Bank unveiled its new mobile food pantry on Monday.

Nearly one out of every seven Rhode Islanders gets food stamps now, as a combination of high unemployment, expanded eligibility and stepped-up outreach has doubled enrollment in the federally funded program.

The long wait is over for Nevada City Farmers Market and residents who rely on Food Stamp (EBT) benefits to purchase healthy food for their families. After an eight-month process, the market will begin accepting EBT benefits this Saturday.

CANTON — For the cash-strapped college student trying to juggle tuition, utilities, rent and other cost of living items, they may have found a new lifeline: food stamps.

Persons who wish to receive government surplus food at the September distribution — and who do not receive food stamps — will need to file an application between Monday and Sept. 9.

Farmers markets could have an easier time selling to shoppers who use food stamps under a bill passed by the California Assembly.

Marie Peer, Moffat County Department of Social Services director, has seen the number of food stamp cases her department handles consistently increase since 2008. Seeing more residents need help putting food on the table can be tough sometimes, she said. But, “you don’t have time for heartbreaking,” she said.

Let Them Eat Cake By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS It is not unusual for members of the diminishing upper middle class to drop $20000 or $30000 on a big wedding. But for celebrities this large sum wouldn’t cover the wedding dress or the flowers. When country music star Keith Urban married actress Nicole Kidman in 2006, their wedding cost $250000. This large sum hardly counts as a celebrity wedding. When mega-millionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump married model Melania Knauss, the wedding bill was $1000000. The marriages of Madonna and film director Guy Ritchie, Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren, and Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones pushed up the cost of celebrity marriages to $1.5 million. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes upped the ante to $2000000. Now comes the politicians’s daughter as celebrity. According to news reports, Chelsea Clinton’s wedding to investment banker Mark Mezvinsky on July 31 is costing papa Bill $3000000. According to the London Daily Mail, the total price tag will be about $5000000. The additional $2000000 apparently is being laid off on US Taxpayers as Secret Service costs for protecting former president Clinton and foreign heads of state, such as the presidents of France and Italy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who are among the 500 invited guests along with Barbara Streisand, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Ted Turner, and Clinton friend and donor Denise Rich, wife of the Clinton-pardoned felon. Before we attend to the poor political …