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<title>NCPR Topical RSS: low-income</title>
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<itunes:summary>NCPR provides locally-produced news stories from around the Adirondack and North Country regions of New York State, as well as Western Vermont, and Ontario and Quebec in Canada.</itunes:summary>
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<title>Gillibrand wants food stamps, milk price reform in Farm Bill</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21942/20130508/gillibrand-wants-food-stamps-milk-price-reform-in-farm-bill</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (May 8, 2013) Congress is back to work on a new five year Farm Bill. The Senate passed one last year, but the House of Representatives couldn&apos;t agree on the size of cuts to the food stamp program and other issues.New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says preserving food stamps is &quot;a moral issue.&quot; And she says there&apos;s a way to pay for them. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21942/20130508/gillibrand-wants-food-stamps-milk-price-reform-in-farm-bill">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: David Sommerstein</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Congress is back to work on a new five year Farm Bill. The Senate passed one last year, but the House of Representatives couldn&apos;t agree on the size of cuts to the food stamp program and other issues.New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says preserving food stamps is &quot;a moral issue.&quot; And she says there&apos;s a way to pay for them. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21942/20130508/gillibrand-wants-food-stamps-milk-price-reform-in-farm-bill">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>02:35</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>photolead, politics, economy, agriculture, food stamp, nutrition, health, low income, poverty, farming, farm bill, [loc: ], gillibrand, washington, topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Story 2.0: Mohawks give thanks to Venezuela&apos;s Chavez</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21573/20130307/story-2-0-mohawks-give-thanks-to-venezuela-apos-s-chavez</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 7, 2013) Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is stirring up as much controversy after his death as he did during his life. Chavez was a strident opponent of the United States. But he also helped many poor people, even in the U.S. Republicans slammed New York Democrat Jose Serrano yesterday for praising Chavez on this point. Under Chavez, Venezuela&apos;s national oil company, CITGO, donated 200 million gallons of home heating oil to low income Americans, including to Mohawks in Akwesasne.David Sommerstein reported on the program in 2006. He checks back in for our Story 2.0 series, where we revisit stories from the NCPR archive. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21573/20130307/story-2-0-mohawks-give-thanks-to-venezuela-apos-s-chavez">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: David Sommerstein</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is stirring up as much controversy after his death as he did during his life. Chavez was a strident opponent of the United States. But he also helped many poor people, even in the U.S. Republicans slammed New York Democrat Jose Serrano yesterday for praising Chavez on this point. Under Chavez, Venezuela&apos;s national oil company, CITGO, donated 200 million gallons of home heating oil to low income Americans, including to Mohawks in Akwesasne.David Sommerstein reported on the program in 2006. He checks back in for our Story 2.0 series, where we revisit stories from the NCPR archive. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21573/20130307/story-2-0-mohawks-give-thanks-to-venezuela-apos-s-chavez">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>03:51</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>photolead, chavez, venezuela, politics, winter, energy, low income, akwesasne, mohawk, indian, native, stlv, citgo, heating, [loc:44.9739364 -74.6632416], topstory, economy</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Plenty at stake in farm bill standoff</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20506/20120920/plenty-at-stake-in-farm-bill-standoff</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Sep 20, 2012) UPDATE: Thursday afternoon, the Wall Street Journal reports House Speaker John Boehner has officially confirmed that the farm bill won&apos;t be taken up until after the November elections. North Country farmers are anxiously watching the status of the new farm bill in the House of Representatives. The current farm bill expires on September 30. The Senate passed a new five-year, $497 billion farm bill over the summer. But House leadership has yet to let its version come to the floor for a vote. &quot;Tea Party&quot; Republicans want to see much deeper cuts in the biggest item in the bill — the federal food stamp program.So what if the Farm Bill isn&apos;t passed by the end of the month? How would that affect North Country agriculture? [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20506/20120920/plenty-at-stake-in-farm-bill-standoff">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: David Sommerstein</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[UPDATE: Thursday afternoon, the Wall Street Journal reports House Speaker John Boehner has officially confirmed that the farm bill won&apos;t be taken up until after the November elections. North Country farmers are anxiously watching the status of the new farm bill in the House of Representatives. The current farm bill expires on September 30. The Senate passed a new five-year, $497 billion farm bill over the summer. But House leadership has yet to let its version come to the floor for a vote. &quot;Tea Party&quot; Republicans want to see much deeper cuts in the biggest item in the bill — the federal food stamp program.So what if the Farm Bill isn&apos;t passed by the end of the month? How would that affect North Country agriculture? [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20506/20120920/plenty-at-stake-in-farm-bill-standoff">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>05:29</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>photolead, politics, economy, agriculture, washington, congress, food, milk, dairy, organic, food stamps, low income, farming, [loc:38.8951118 -77.0363658], topstory</itunes:keywords>
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<title>Budget leaves out vulnerable?</title>
<link>http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17369/20110324/budget-leaves-out-vulnerable</link>
<description><![CDATA[ (Mar 24, 2011) A number of groups have been left out of Governor Cuomo’s budget – the largest- is schools, who have been cut by a billion and a half dollars, but many of society’s most vulnerable are complaining that they received short shrift in the governors budget, too. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17369/20110324/budget-leaves-out-vulnerable">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<itunes:author>NCPR: Karen DeWitt</itunes:author>
<itunes:summary><![CDATA[A number of groups have been left out of Governor Cuomo’s budget – the largest- is schools, who have been cut by a billion and a half dollars, but many of society’s most vulnerable are complaining that they received short shrift in the governors budget, too. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/17369/20110324/budget-leaves-out-vulnerable">full story</a></strong>]]]></itunes:summary>
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<itunes:duration>04:45</itunes:duration>
<itunes:keywords>politics, budget, education, low income, albany, cuomo, [loc:42.6525793 -73.7562317], topstory</itunes:keywords>
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