By Jeff Cox, CNBC.com

The number of Americans on food stamps hit a record high in June, and economists don't expect much improvement as long as unemployment remains high.

Those receiving benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program numbered 46.37 million, the government said in a report that hit just days ahead of the monthly nonfarm payrolls report, which the Labor Department releases Friday.

The two numbers are inextricably linked as the economy battles its way back from the crippling recession that the National Bureau of Economic Research says ended in 2009.

"The unemployment data is not really telling us the true story of how many people are underemployed," says Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Rockwell Global Capital in New York. Food stamps are "a good indication of how the income of the workforce has stagnated and more and more people are applying for food stamps."

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by Michael d'Estries, The Mother Nature Network

For brewers on both sides of the political aisle, the release this weekend of the official recipe for "White House Honey Ale" offered a rare moment of bipartisan "Cheers!"

Since the middle of August, beer enthusiasts have been pressuring the Administration to release the "secret recipe" via signatures on the official White House site and a more formal Freedom of Information Act request.

"In keeping with the brewing traditions of the founding fathers, homebrewers across America call on the Obama administration to release the recipe for the White House home brew so that it may be enjoyed by all," the petition reads.

While the Obama Administration has been enjoying the White House Honey Ale (incidentally, the first beer ever brewed within the White House) since the 2011 Super Bowl, interest over the beverage did not erupt publicly until the President brought some with him on the campaign trail this summer.

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The following women are not attractive to Donald Trump: Angelina Jolie ("She's been with so many guys"), Cher ("bad plastic surgery"), Rosie O'Donnell ("big, fat pig"), and now, Arianna Huffington.

On Wednesday, Trump used his Twitter account to call the internet powerhouse "unattractive both inside and out." He went on to attack her marriage, which ended in an amicable divorce.

"I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man-he made a good decision," Trump added in less than 140 characters.

It's not the first time he's publicly judged a successful female media figure by her looks and intimate life, and it probably won't be the last.

Trump's world seems to be divided into three categories. Women he finds attractive. Women he doesn't find attractive. And Men. It's not so different from a Miss USA pageant, only "contestants" like Huffington don't ask to be entered.

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While campaigning in Michigan, Mitt Romney made a "birther" joke about President Obama. He told the crowd, "No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that we were born and raised."Romney himself stands by the joke and says, "We've got to have a little humor in a campaign." I couldn't agree more! That's why I laughed ridiculously hard when I got a message in my Facebook feed on Friday from the Obama campaign saying, "Today's a good day to buy one of our Made in the USA mugs-with the President's birth certificate on the back." Now that's political comedy! I bought the mug, along with some more hilarious Obama campaign gear! - By Carolyn Castiglia

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