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  1. Food stamps now feed one in eight Americans and one in four children. @NYT: http://ow.ly/Higr
  2. If you’re looking for a job right now, your prospects are terrible. Paul Krugman, @NYT: http://ow.ly/Hcak
  3. Housing prices hit another bump in the road to recovery. @NYT: http://ow.ly/FyuH
  4. “The medical bills put me over the edge. I had no money for food at this point.'' Bankrupt from health care bills. @NYT http://ow.ly/FynE
  5. Holiday trips are longer, as travelers try to stretch their travel dollars. @NYT: http://ow.ly/FyrT
  6. More people landing in bankruptcy because of health care bills. @NYT: http://ow.ly/Fy9r
  7. Tuition at the University of California system could go up by 32 percent. @NYT: http://ow.ly/DOcS
  8. Michigan's jobless rate goes down, employment numbers go up, slightly. Free Press: http://ow.ly/Dvtr
  9. Human Rights Watch: It's wrong for Cuba to jail the jobless. @NYT: http://ow.ly/Dq3B
  10. “This is my childhood home. I grew up there. My mother passed away there. My grandfather passed away there.” @NYT: http://ow.ly/Dpee
  11. Now, Mexican families are sending money north to help their relatives here. @NYT: http://ow.ly/D0jv
  12. The recession: The great racial equalizer. @NYT: http://ow.ly/D098
  13. The number of American households that had trouble putting food on the table went up in 2008 from the year before. @NYT: http://ow.ly/CPI7
  14. When parents are laid off, the children are stressed out too. @NYT: http://ow.ly/BBSI
  15. We have less to spend, but we're getting fatter. WSJ: http://ow.ly/yiZq
  16. In Detroit, hiring private security firms to fill in the gaps left by police cutbacks. Time: http://ow.ly/xBOX
  17. More moms going back to work. Fox: http://ow.ly/xpOM
  18. Economy has started to grow again. @NYT: http://ow.ly/xn1T
  19. American consumers still in a deep funk. Globe and Mail: http://ow.ly/x9OG
  20. Incomes for Americans 55 and older went up since 2000, while it went down for all others. @NYT: http://ow.ly/x9Rh