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2011-12-31T06:17:00.001-08:00

2011-12-22T13:10:00.000-08:00

Most Food Stamp Recipients Have No Earned Income

2011-09-26T13:30:00.000-07:00

We are quickly becoming a nation of do nothings.

Some 70% of households that relied on food stamps last year had no earned income, a new report shows.

More than 40 million individuals and nearly 19 million households tapped the food stamp program in 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. While the recession technically ended in 2009, a sluggish economic recovery left millions out of work or underemployed and leaning on the government for assistance last year.

The Agriculture Departments annual snapshot on the characteristics of food stamp households, released Friday, shows that seven in 10 households receiving food stamps had no earned income last year, though many got other forms of government benefits.

2011-09-26T13:28:00.001-07:00

Pic of the Day

2011-08-26T06:48:00.001-07:00

2011-08-25T13:58:00.001-07:00

Fathers Day Funny

2011-06-19T08:13:00.001-07:00

Happy Fathers Day

2011-06-19T07:27:00.000-07:00

To all my lucky bretheren in Fatherhood, have a great day!

2010-08-10T08:00:00.000-07:00

Don't want it

2010-05-21T08:34:00.000-07:00

WSJ Poll: Voters Shifting to GOP

2010-05-13T04:25:00.000-07:00

Ominous for the left if accurate, lets hope it is.

Republicans have solidified support among voters who had drifted from the party in recent elections, putting the GOP in position for a strong comeback in November's mid-term campaign, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.

Republicans have reassembled their coalition by reconnecting with independents, seniors, blue-collar voters, suburban women and small town and rural voters—all of whom had moved away from the party in the 2006 elections, in which Republicans lost control of the House. Those voter groups now favor GOP control of Congress.

A big shift is evident among independents, who at this point in the 2006 campaign favored Democratic control of Congress rather than Republican control, 40% to 24%. In this poll, independents favored the GOP, 38% to 30%.

Suburban women favored Democratic control four years ago by a 24-point margin. In the latest survey, they narrowly favored Republicans winning the House. A similar turnaround was seen among voters 65 and older.

Mitchell

2010-05-12T17:07:00.001-07:00

2010-02-15T06:44:00.001-08:00

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2009-01-03T12:42:00.000-08:00

Sulu

2008-09-15T08:57:00.001-07:00

John Bolton resigns as ambassador to U.N.

2006-12-04T05:33:00.000-08:00

Just damn!

WASHINGTON - Unable to win Senate confirmation, U.N. Ambassador John Bolton will step down when his recess appointment expires soon, the White House said Monday.

Bolton’s nomination has languished in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for more than a year, blocked by Democrats and several Republicans. Sen. Lincoln Chafee, a moderate Republican who lost in the midterm elections Nov. 7 that swept Democrats to power in both houses of Congress, was adamantly opposed to Bolton.

Politics wins over pragmatism.