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Poverty a huge issue in rural counties
WDBJ7 ReporterA hot meal is something most of us take for granted. But there's a good chance some people in your hometown are hungry and don't have food to eat. Today, the U-S Department of Agriculture announced plans to expand StrikeForce. Virginia is one of ten...Tags: Floyd County, The Happiest News!, Healthy Diet, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Human Interest
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Mail Call - March 26
“Just for the information of your readers, the new pontiff, Francis, took the name after the patron saint of animals, St. Francis of Assisi.” — Hagerstown “This is to all the conservatives who keep making the argument that more...Tags: Religion and Belief, Francis I, Prisons, Politics, Religious Leaders
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Cost of Iraq measured in schools and hunger
It is great that the General Assembly has devised a program to spend $1 billion to rebuild the Baltimore City schools as related in your editorial ("Building for the future," March 20). Fifteen percent of Americans are on food stamps, which costs about...Tags: Iraq
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1940s church, 76 percent - 2010s church, 52 percent
Contributing WriterThe Christian church, often identified as a building rather than as the numeric total of those who believe in Jesus Christ as Savior, Redeemer and Lord is witnessing the diminishing interest of those who make no effort to seek a group of believers with...Tags: Religion and Belief, Christianity, Separation of Church and State
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Homeless commission hires new CEO
The Central Florida Commission on Homelessness, saved from the threat of extinction last summer, has made its first major move as a reinvented nonprofit agency by hiring a CEO. Andrae Bailey, the 36-year-old executive director of the charitable...
Tags: Orlando Health, Buddy Dyer, Orange County (Florida), Teresa Jacobs, Homelessness
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Connecticut Nutritionist in a Standoff With Monster After Calling Out Energy Drinks
A multi-billion-dollar monster of a beverage company is threatening to sue a Connecticut nutritionist unless she takes back her statements that little kids shouldn't have caffeine-loaded "energy" drinks. In fact, the company's name happens to be Monster...
Tags: Heart Problems, Food Industry, The New York Times, Energy Drinks, Yale University
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2 NW Ind. stores indicted on food stamp fraud
HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — The owners of two northwestern Indiana stores have been indicted on charges alleging that they manipulated the federal food stamp program to reap more than $500,000. The federal indictment alleges the two Gary food marts...Tags: Cicero
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The 1% aren't like the rest of us
Over the last two years, President Obama and Congress have put the country on track to reduce projected federal budget deficits by nearly $4 trillion. Yet when that process began, in early 2011, only about 12% of Americans in Gallup polls cited federal...
Tags: Politics, Budgets and Budgeting, Unemployment Benefits, Vanderbilt University , National Government
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Rothfus calls budget proposal 'pro-growth'
staff writer, @damichellegU.S. Rep. Keith Rothfus said the budget measure that passed the House Thursday is a pro-growth, pro-jobs budget. The plan, which passed 221-207, produces a balanced budget in 10 years without raising taxes. Rothfus said the last four years have seen...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, Labor Markets, Medicare
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Boehner: Time for Senate to get to work and stop sequester
WASHINGTON – Seeking to shift blame onto President Obama’s party for the looming budget cuts, House Speaker John A. Boehner said Tuesday it was about time the Senate “gets off their ass” and develop a way around the enormous...
Tags: Politics, Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Department of Defense, White House, Petroleum Industry
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GOP approves Paul Ryan's austere, balanced budget
WASHINGTON – The austere House budget drafted by Rep. Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) that has come to define the Republican Party was approved Thursday on a strict party-line vote, as the GOP argues that a balanced budget should now be Washington’s top...
Tags: Politics, Budgets and Budgeting, White House, Taxation, Health Insurance
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Md. to partner with USDA to enhance food stamp fraud detection efforts
The Maryland Department of Human Resources will step up efforts to find people who sell their food stamps for cash or otherwise defraud the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, under a pilot program with the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
Tags: Conservation, Employment Opportunities, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Environmental Issues, Career and Workplace
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