Saturday, November 02, 2013
Red Sox players honor bomb victims | FOX Sports - Right in the middle of the Red Sox championship parade on Saturday, as the route wound its way to the Boston Marathon finish line on Boylston Street, Jonny Gomes and Jarrod Saltalamacchia exited their duck boats. Gomes laid the World Series trophy on the yellow-and-blue finish line as he and the Red Sox catcher held up 617 “Boston Strong” Red Sox jerseys.
Our family will lose $44 in food stamps - CNNMoney - Jennifer Liberto - Enrollment in food stamps, formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, has soared. Some 47.6 million people, or nearly 15% of the population, get them, according to September federal data. That compares to 26.3 million, or 8.7% of the population, in 2007. The average benefit per person is $133.19 a month. For families who rely on food stamps, it means a lot of planning and tough choices.
On Facebook, a growing teenage wasteland - CNN.com - Doug Gross - While the social-networking juggernaut continues to chug along among adults, boasting more than 1 billion active users, younger users are flocking to newer, and arguably hipper, networking tools.
The Republicans' War on Food Stamps | Politics News | Rolling Stone - Elizabeth Drew - he way the program to provide the poor with the bare minimum of daily nutrition has been handled is a metaphor for how the far right in the House is systematically trying to take down the federal government. The Tea Party radicals and those who either fear or cultivate them are now subjecting the food-stamp program to the same kind of assault they have unleashed on other settled policies and understandings that have been in place for decades. Breaking all manner of precedents on a series of highly partisan votes, with the Republicans barely prevailing, the House in September slashed the food-stamp program by a whopping $39 billion and imposed harsh new requirements for getting on, or staying on, the program. The point was to deny the benefit to millions.
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