Bush proposal targets elderly nutrition in a box program
Washington reports President Bush seeks to end the Commodity Supplemental Food Program CSFP and shift recipients to food stamps The program serves nearly 500000 low income seniors with monthly boxes of cereal peanut butter fruit vegetables and pasta Some oppose the move citing generosity and stigma while USDA argues for nationwide reach via food stamps and WIC The debate includes figures like Herb Kohl and Sherrie Tussler and covers program cost about 111 million this year plus Katrina aid
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Public support for Bush slides despite rising confidence
An AP Ipsos poll shows President Bush with 40 percent job approval and 89 percent rating on handling the economy, near lows despite a surge in consumer confidence in the ABC CASH index. Foreign policy and terrorism approval rise to 47 percent, while Congress approval remains weak at 47 percent opposed to GOP control at 37 percent. poll of 1,000 adults with a 2 point margin.
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Internet 'Cyber Storm' wargame ends with readiness test
The government wrapped up its largest ever Cyber Storm exercise assessing response to internet based attacks by activists and hackers. Officials from multiple nations and major firms simulated misinfo campaigns and failures to measure coordinated responses without impacting the real Net. Homeland Security will publish results by summer as 115 plus agencies and partners, including the White House NSC and NSA, assess readiness.
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Federal posts 21 billion January surplus in 2006
The Treasury says January 2006 produced a 21 billion dollar surplus as spending hit a January record of 200 billion while receipts rose to 220 billion, a 13.7 percent year over year gain. The month’s surplus more than doubled the 8.6 billion figure from January 2005. The surge marks the best January result in four years and the largest January surplus since 2002.
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