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So many New Jersey residents need food stamps that the government can’t keep up http://thkpr.gs/12Z86uS

Mohammed Badie, Muslim Brotherhood Leader, To Be Arrested, Egypt Prosecutor Orders

Egypt's prosecutor ordered the arrest on Wednesday of the leaders of ousted President Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, charging them with inciting violence that saw 55 of their members shot dead. The Brotherhood's downfall has been welcomed by wealthy Gulf states Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which offered Egypt $8 billion in aid on Tuesday.The promised cash, loans and fuel from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates will go a long way to easing a deep economic crisis that has worsened during two and a half years of instability since autocrat Hosni Mubarak was swept from power by a popular revolt.

Sequestration Pushes Head Start Families To The Precipice (UPDATE)

Budget cuts have resulted in fewer meals for seniors, less financial aid for scientific research, poorer natural disaster preparedness and more expensive treatments for cancer patients.
The Huffington Post set out to tell the story of another slice of sequestration: the damage being done to Head Start. The 5.27 percent reduction to the $8 billion program is having a devastating effect on families with children in the program, according to interviews with parents across the country.

Defense

About half of the sequestration consists of defense spending cuts, which would "drastically" shrink the military and cancel defense contracts, according to the House Armed Services Committee.

Summary from then White House

Emergency Response

The sequestration would slash funding for the government's emergency response system for disasters such as hurricanes
Checks for unemployed people looking for work would shrink by up to 9 percent

Homelessness Programs

More than 100,000 formerly homeless people would lose their current housing as a result of sequestration

Rental Assistance

About 125,000 low-income families would be at risk of losing their housing because of rental assistance cuts

Mental Health Programs

The sequestration would eliminate care for up to 373,000 "seriously mentally ill" people

Food Safety

The FDA would conduct fewer food inspections as a result of sequestration

( When you concentrate your efforts on promoting toxins and ignoring nutrition.... this is a loss ?)

Head Start

About 70,000 children would lose access to the early education program Head Start

Small Business Assistance

The government's small business loan guarantees would get slashed by nearly $1 billion as a result of the sequestration,

( Small business is where real and useful growth flourishes...which is why microfinance makes a big difference. They aren't as successful at evading tax, either. )

Scientific Research

The sequestration would slash scientific research funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF)

HIV Prevention

Up to 424,000 HIV tests would be on the chopping block. Thousands of people with HIV also would lose access to "life-saving" HIV medications.