Nearly Half of U.S. Children Will Eat on Food Stamps.

The other day, I asked Kerri if she thought it was too late to have our publisher change something in our upcoming book. I was prompted to ask because of a recent report released by the USDA which stated that 49 million Americans (1 in 7 households) are currently in need of some type of [...]

Mmmboppin?

 
I have teased my younger sister for years about her undying love for the band Hanson. Now I should clarify that while she is 28 now, she first fell in love with them during the “Mmmbop years” when she was about 12 or 13. When she was pregnant with my niece, my brother -in-law had [...]

Oppose Obama’s Big Agriculture Nominee

The following was sent to us from the Center for Biodiversity, please read and take action…
Does the talking head of Big Agriculture belong in charge of America’s agricultural trade relations? Obama thinks so. Despite claiming that lobbyists wouldn’t find jobs in his White House, Obama recently nominated former pesticide lobbyist Islam Siddiqui to be Chief [...]

The Echoes of FDR.

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have too much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt (second inaugural address, 1937)
Gray skies, billowing wind, and periods of harsh rain are slowly dissipating from the Washington D.C. [...]

Costco Accepts Food Stamps.

In recent months, food stamp enrollment has increased across the nation as more people are struggling to make ends meet. This is one of the reasons that Costco announced in Maythat it would  begin accepting food stamps. At first they were hesitant, at one point stating that they did not believe people receiving assistance would be able to [...]