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Food Stamp Program Helping Reduce Poverty - NYTimes.com →

thejennismightier:

A new study by the Agriculture Department has found that food stamps, one of the country’s largest social safety net programs, reduced the poverty rate substantially during the recent recession. The food stamp program, formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, reduced the poverty rate by nearly 8 percent in 2009, the most recent year included in the study, a significant impact for a social program whose effects often go unnoticed by policy makers.

It’s almost like helping people helps people.

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masonconrad:

a moment of silence

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theworldisconfused:

goodreasonnews:

stfusexists:

oncewaslost-neverwasfound:

talkstraight:

Presidential Candidates 9/11 Tweets For The Day….

Anyone else see an issue here?

What actually happened today:

An Obama staffer told people to sign up to vote.

A Romney staffer sent a condolence tweet.

Actual Romney gave a campaign speech to the national guard.

Actual Obama gave a memorial speech at the pentagon for the 4th year in a row.

Also, actual Obama tweeted this:

So can we stop with the “I love America moar” pissing contest? Seriously, is this the most important issue we have right now, OP?

Are we all actually aware that neither Obama nor Romney is actually tweeting. They’re kinda busy guys, they’re not dickin around on twitter.

I think Barack Obama does actually do some of his own tweets. If it has “-bo” at the end, my understanding is that’s him, not a staffer.

And the only issue that I see here is that some dickwad tried to make it into an issue.

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Ryan is more Rand than Rome.

Paul Ryan is a Good Catholic Like Fred Phelps is a Good Baptist (via azspot)

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This is the ticket for admission for “Fertilized Egg” to a Paul Ryan campaign event.

Hell yes feminists, hell yes.

cognitivedissonance:

boehner-trollolol:

thedailywhat:

Heartwarming Tearjerker of the Day: Ten-year-old Elijah Porter was ecstatic when Canada’s 4x100m relay team won bronze in London.

Then the team was disqualified for running outside the lane, and Elijah, devastated, wanted to help ease the pain for runners Justyn Warner, Gavin Smellie, Jared Connaughton, and Oluseyi Smith.

So he sent them a letter:

Dear Justyn, Gavin, Jarred [sic], and Oluseyi,

I’m Elijah Porter. I’m ten and I live in Newfoundland, Canada. When I heard what happened on Aug. 11, I knew it was wrong. The rules were not right. But, at last, I realized how good you were. We’re Canadians. We persevere. We create better lives for each other. The cold didn’t stop us from living in the north. We didn’t lose the War of 1812. We adapt and survive. We have earned our freedom. Someday, if I become a biologist, if I get rich, and, if I remember, I will donate money to the summer and winter Canadian Olympians. I hope you like the medal!

Elijah Porter

Elijah included with the letter his medal from a soccer clinic sponsored by Tim Hortons.

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Oh my god

So many onions…

Hahahahahahahahaha. I laughed WAY too hard at this.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOO JEALOUSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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STFU, Conservatives: afeministinthekitchen: Impure Tale: Abortion disproves Atheism and... →

afeministinthekitchen:

Impure Tale: Abortion disproves Atheism and Darwinism.

crosspreacher:

I apologize for the bold statement, just thinking over some things.

Darwinism says that above all else, the purpose of ones own life is to have a child, and for that child to live on…

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Well, that would certainly be no fun.

Yes. Hell yes.

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