MSM: Food stamp list soars past 35 million – USDA
(Reuters) – More than 35 million Americans received food stamps in June, up 22 percent from June 2008 and a new record as the country continued to grapple with the worst recession since the Great...
View ArticleUS Economy: More Unemployment. Slowdown in the Pace of Job Losses
(BobChapman) – The number of Americans filing first- time claims for unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest since January, a sign the labor market is deteriorating more slowly as the...
View ArticleMade In China – Importing America To Its Own Death
During the Bolshevik Revolution that led to communist Russia, Comrade Vladimir Lenin said, “Sell the capitalists enough rope and they will hang themselves!” Nearly 100 years later, Lenin’s predictions...
View ArticleHalf of Our Kids on Food Stamps
A new study finds that nearly half of all American children will need to use the federal food stamp program to eat at some point in their childhood, with the number much higher for African American...
View ArticleMSM: Americans on food stamps tops 36 million
(Reuters) – The number of Americans receiving food stamp assistance soared above 36 million for the first time in August, the eighth month in a row that enrollment set a record, the U.S. Agriculture...
View ArticleThe Recipe for Disaster
Unemployment in the United States is now officially at 10.2%. Add in those individuals that no longer receive unemployment benefits, are no longer looking for a job, or for some other reason are not...
View ArticleFood Stamp Program Expanding by 20,000 People Per Day
The stigma of food stamps is fading amid record use of the U.S. nutrition program, which now feeds more than 36 million people, officials said. “I think the response of the program has been...
View ArticleMSM: Food Stamps Go to a Record 37.2 Million, USDA Says
(Bloomberg) – A record 37.2 million people, or about one out of every eight Americans, received food stamps in September, as the recession drove a surging jobless rate, according to a government...
View ArticleGrowing Up Empty: The Hunger Epidemic in America
Most Americans may find it hard to accept that millions in this nation are suffering from hunger — an affliction most often associated with war-torn Africa or flood-ravaged Bengal. It flies in the face...
View ArticleVideo: FOOD STAMPS PROFITS – how JP Morgan gets rich with increased poverty
Max Keiser talks to Stacy Herbert about how JP Morgan Chase makes more money when more people are forced to use food stamps swipe cards recorded on January 9th, 2010...
View ArticleVideo: Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction Destroyed Iceland – Max Keiser
(OnTheEdge) – Max follows up with Johannes Skulason about events in Iceland. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thNGfyVBwDo] The post Video: Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction Destroyed Iceland...
View ArticlePhoenix gives OK to 2% tax on food
(ArizonaRepublic) – Desperate to save police, fire and other city jobs, a divided Phoenix City Council on Tuesday approved a sales tax on grocery items that will generate tens of millions of dollars a...
View ArticleBanking and Housing Payments Devoured the Middle Class Income – 1 out of 10...
It is a challenge to say that things are getting better when every month that goes by more Americans are losing their jobs or needing to apply for food assistance. In the latest data for food...
View Article2008 Financial Collapse: The Greatest Calamity The World Has Ever Known –...
The year is 2010 and to anyone not in denial, the industrialized nations have entered the greatest calamity the world has ever known: 35 Million Americans on Food Stamps: 12 Percent of U.S. Population...
View ArticleEconomy
(NYTimes) – Program to pay homeowners to sell at a loss In an effort to end the foreclosure crisis, the Obama administration has been trying to keep defaulting owners in their homes. Now it will take a...
View ArticleOur Dirty Little Secret: Who’s Really Poor in America?
(AlterNet) – The problem today for most isn’t this recession, it’s that except for the top 10 percent, average household income hasn’t changed a bit for 10 to 20 years. Two old friends, civil rights...
View ArticlePoverty now rampant: Half of U.S. kids on food stamps
(NaturalNews) – Almost half of all children living in the United States will receive food stamp assistance at some point before they turn 18, according to a study conducted by researchers from Cornell...
View ArticleEconomy
(NorthCountyTimes) – EXCLUSIVE: Major lender signals surge in local foreclosures – Read More Here (ZeroHedge) – Guest Post: It’s Impossible To “Get By” In The US While the market cheers on the...
View ArticleVideo: It’s A Trap America – Charlie On The Economy
(CharlieVLog) – July 13, 2010 – [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9J4qc73eZc] The post Video: It’s A Trap America – Charlie On The Economy appeared first on Dprogram.net: Deprogram Your Mind -...
View Article“Let’s Move” Stamps Prompt Safety Concerns
Kids playing tag, bad – police opening fire in public, good (JulieWilson) – Just when it seems like the world can’t become any more backwards, Linn’s Stamp News reports that the US Postal Service is...
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