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With millions being cut from food stamp programs, veterans will be hardest hit. (Photo Norbert Schiller/Mint Press)

Hardest Hit By Proposed Food Stamp Cuts? Veterans And Active Military

Archives for June 2012

Court Challenge Could Result In Medicaid Cutbacks Instead Of Expansion

The future of the nation’s largest health insurance program — Medicaid — hangs in the balance of the Supreme Court’s decision on the 2010 health law. The state-federal program which covers 60 million poor and disabled people would be greatly expanded under the health law, adding 17 million more people starting in 2014. But if […]

Phil Galewitz
By Phil Galewitz
Sign at Occupy St Pete: "Hands Off Social Security, Medicaid Medicare" "www.SayNoCuts.org" (Photo by Robert Neff)

The future of the nation’s largest health insurance program -- Medicaid -- hangs in the balance of the Supreme Court’s decision on the 2010 health law. The state-federal program which covers 60 million poor and disabled people would be greatly expanded under the health law, adding 17 million more people starting in 2014. But if the entire law

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Republicans Back Down On Effort To Defund Transparency Rule

Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee today dropped an effort to defund a new Federal Communications Commission rule that will make political ad data available on the Internet. The FCC rule, which was OKed by the commission earlier this year and is expected to go into effect sometime this summer or fall, would require TV […]

Justin Elliot
By Justin Elliot
This June 7, 2011, file photo shows Las Vegas Sands Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson waving to reporters as he arrived for Sands China's annual meeting in Hong Kong. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee today dropped an effort to defund a new Federal Communications Commission rule that will make political ad data available on the Internet. The FCC rule, which was OKed by the commission earlier this year and is expected to go into effect sometime this summer or fall, would require TV stations to

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By The Numbers: The U.S.’s Growing For-Profit Detention Industry

The growth of the private detention industry has long been a subject of scrutiny. A recent eight-part series in the New Orleans Times-Picayune chronicled how more than half of Louisiana’s 40,000 inmates are housed in prisons run by sheriffs or private companies as part of a broader financial incentive scheme. The detention business goes beyond […]

Suevon Lee
By Suevon Lee
In this view looking out from the condemned inmate's holding cell at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif., Thursday, June 14, 2007. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

The growth of the private detention industry has long been a subject of scrutiny. A recent eight-part series in the New Orleans Times-Picayune chronicled how more than half of Louisiana’s 40,000 inmates are housed in prisons run by sheriffs or private companies as part of a broader financial incentive scheme. The detention business goes beyond just

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Putin/Obama Talks

(CHICAGO) – Since reelected in March, Putin and Obama met for the first time on Monday at the Los Cabos, Mexico G20 meeting. Discussions focused on major geopolitical and economic issues. Differences on Syria remain unresolved. At a joint press conference, Putin said, “We held talks about international problems including the Syrian crisis.” “(W)e will continue our […]

Stephen Lendman
By Stephen Lendman
U.S. President Barack Obama, left, greets Russia's President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, Monday, June 18, 2012. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

(CHICAGO) - Since reelected in March, Putin and Obama met for the first time on Monday at the Los Cabos, Mexico G20 meeting. Discussions focused on major geopolitical and economic issues. Differences on Syria remain unresolved. At a joint press conference, Putin said, "We held talks about international problems including the Syrian

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Grant Targets Programs Aimed At Helping Vets Off The Streets And Into Employment

(MintPress) – With nearly 70,000 U.S. veterans homeless, the Obama Administration is attempting to make good on its promise to eradicate the issue through a new grant program aimed at assisting public and nonprofit organizations by reaching out to those who go without shelter in a country they once sacrificed to serve. To assist veterans […]

Trisha Marczak
By Trisha Marczak
Mark Salvatore, left, a homeless outreach nurse with the Veterans Administration talks with homeless Vietnam veteran William Joyce in Philadelphia, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2007. A new report scheduled to be released Thursday shows nearly a half-million veterans were homeless last year.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

(MintPress) – With nearly 70,000 U.S. veterans homeless, the Obama Administration is attempting to make good on its promise to eradicate the issue through a new grant program aimed at assisting public and nonprofit organizations by reaching out to those who go without shelter in a country they once sacrificed to serve. To assist veterans off the

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Despite Evidence Of Illicit Activity, US To Remove MEK From Terrorist List To Build Ties

(MintPress) — The Mujahideen-el Khalq (MEK) could soon be removed from America’s list of terrorist organizations. However, the controversial decision is being hindered by reports that the embattled group has failed to evacuate the remaining 1,400 group members from Camp Ashraf in Iraq. The MEK has long fought Iranian governments, both secular monarchies, and later […]

Martin Michaels
By Martin Michaels
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell speaks to the crowd gathered in front of the White House in Washington Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011. Hundreds rallied, demanding that an Iranian opposition group, Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), once allied with Iraq's Saddam Hussein, be removed from a U.S. terror list. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

(MintPress) — The Mujahideen-el Khalq (MEK) could soon be removed from America’s list of terrorist organizations. However, the controversial decision is being hindered by reports that the embattled group has failed to evacuate the remaining 1,400 group members from Camp Ashraf in Iraq. The MEK has long fought Iranian governments, both secular

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