To try to alleviate widespread poverty from five years of savage austerity, Varoufakis said the government wanted to introduce a smart card scheme which bearers would use for health insurance but which would also include food stamps worth €100 a month for up to 300,000 families.
Look at a list of British writers who have appeared on stamps and the gaps are consequently glaring and the number remarkably small – roughly the same as the 27 in the US's literary arts series, produced by a nation with only a 240-year history.
He's gone back to using a cheque book and stamps".
There's a Swedish philatelist who makes him tear up books of expensive stamps.
"We're tired of relying on food stamps to feed our own families.
But the sheer relentlessness of their anger ("Elvis never meant shit to me... my heroes don't appear on no stamps") and cold scientific analysis of prejudice ("black father, white mother, black baby"), combined with the sound of a drill piercing your head, made for something urgent and spellbinding.
If you're an American, it's a price that has resulted in a recession and recovery characterized by historically high poverty – with 42 million Americans on food stamps – and historically low rates of Americans working, with only 63% of the population gainfully employed.
I don't want to live on food stamps, I want to get paid what I deserve and work hard for.
We don't need food stamps, and we definitely don't want buybacks [in which the company buys its own shares to benefit shareholders]." Alvarez, who has worked at McDonald's for five years, said she is paid so little that she needs food stamps and Medicaid to care for her three-year-old son, Manny.
Saint-Exupéry is the only 20th-century writer to figure on a French banknote and will soon have his own set of stamps.
Others have spoken more broadly about the need to reduce income inequality, but at the same time have continued to scorn anti-poverty programs such as food stamps and Medicaid.
