Food stamps end for 48 million; Very slow enrollment for Obamacare (UCNN #212)
Urban Christian News Network with Daniella Whyte for Friday, November 1, 2013.
1. According to Fox News, Forty-eight million Americans will have their food stamps benefits slashed starting Friday, when a recession-era boost in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program expires.
2. According to the Los Angeles Times, Just six enrollments occurred on the opening day for www.healthcare.gov, the troubled Obamacare website, according to documents released late Thursday by a House oversight committee. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, obtained the tally from meeting notes compiled by officials inside the "war room" at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which was overseeing the rollout of the insurance marketplace.
3. According to TIME, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry admitted for the first time on Thursday that in some cases the National Security Agency's surveillance program reached too far. Kerry told an open government summit in London via video link, "Innocent people are not being abused in this process, but there's an effort to try to gather information.
4. According to the BBC, Four Palestinian militants have been killed and five Israeli soldiers injured in violence in the Gaza Strip, Israeli and Palestinian sources say. The soldiers were wounded when they were hit by a bomb as they were destroying a tunnel found last month running from Gaza to Israel.
1. According to Fox News, Forty-eight million Americans will have their food stamps benefits slashed starting Friday, when a recession-era boost in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program expires.
2. According to the Los Angeles Times, Just six enrollments occurred on the opening day for www.healthcare.gov, the troubled Obamacare website, according to documents released late Thursday by a House oversight committee. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, obtained the tally from meeting notes compiled by officials inside the "war room" at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which was overseeing the rollout of the insurance marketplace.
3. According to TIME, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry admitted for the first time on Thursday that in some cases the National Security Agency's surveillance program reached too far. Kerry told an open government summit in London via video link, "Innocent people are not being abused in this process, but there's an effort to try to gather information.
4. According to the BBC, Four Palestinian militants have been killed and five Israeli soldiers injured in violence in the Gaza Strip, Israeli and Palestinian sources say. The soldiers were wounded when they were hit by a bomb as they were destroying a tunnel found last month running from Gaza to Israel.
Today's Devotional
A Prayer for Spending Money - Your Daily Prayer - May 29
No one is immune to the negative hold that money can have on our hearts in plenty or in want. I am a spender. I like to shop and get new things. However, God has taught me throughout my life to pray about my spending and to listen to the still, small voices that lead me in my financial decisions. God desires us to live a life of generosity, putting God before money. We cannot serve both God and money.
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