via EEWMagazine/Rebecca Johnson: Award-winning Gospel singer, Kierra Sheard, may be on a budget herself, but that hasn’t stopped her from reaching out to help those impacted by the government shutdown—the longest in US history. “I’ve been keeping up with the government shutdown and it’s really breaking my heart,” said Sheard, 31, in a recent Instagram […]
via News5: Food stamp recipients in Ohio are receiving an advance on their benefits as part of a plan to help assist people during the partial government shutdown. The state plans to give all SNAP recipients their February benefits by Wednesday. The remaining recipients will receive benefits at the time of certification, according to a news […]
via Joy105: Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth home in Atlanta, Georgia, pictured here, and his longtime church will be closed on MLK Day should the government shutdown continue (Google Image) Those hoping to visit Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth home and longtime church to celebrate his national holiday next Monday will be unable to do so if the […]
via Wkyc: The Cuyahoga Valley National Park will be closed during the government shutdown, but what exactly does that mean? According to the park’s website, you will still be able to access a lot of the park, but things typically locked during non business hours will be closed up. So you can still expect […]
Government shutdowns have become a regular topic of conversation in Washington D.C. for the last few years. While many thought the talk of shutting down the government would have ended with Speaker of the House John Boehner’s retirement, politicians are still continuing to use it as a threat, and congressional gridlock is becoming rather normal. The […]
1. FAMILY FOUND Miracle: A Christmas miracle came early it seems. A family of six survived two days lost in the wintry Nevada mountains and were saved. Their situation was dire. They were in an overturned Jeep in temperatures of about 20 degrees below zero. How did they survive? The industrious family says they started fires […]
1. GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN Pulse of the nation: The parks are open, our favorite panda cams are back on, and people are getting paychecks again. But despite the good news, there’ll be no high-fiving among lawmakers any time soon. Just more than half the public says that it’s bad for the country that the GOP controls […]
Top aides to Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) are working to finalize plans to raise the debt limit through Feb. 7 and end the 16-day-old government shutdown, after a House Republican effort to forge a solution collapsed Tuesday in humiliating failure. “We are getting real close,” Sen. […]
Two steps forward, one step back. A surge of optimism for a possible compromise to end the partial government shutdown and avoid a U.S. default as soon as this week got jolted with the sudden announcement on Monday that a White House meeting between President Barack Obama and congressional leaders had been postponed. In […]
To God be the glory that a billionaire couple donated $10M to help keep head start programs opened because many had been forced to close…
U.S. first lady Michelle Obama arrives for a luncheon hosting first ladies at the Studio Museum in Harlem September 24, 2013 in the Manhattan borough of New York City. *First President Obama had to scrap his scheduled Sept. 9 appearance at the home of “Friends” co-creator Marta Kauffman because of the possibility of military action in Syria. Now Michelle Obama will […]
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