Open thread for night owls: The real costs of 'welfare reform'
Is Welfare Reform Causing Earlier Deaths?A recent public health study tests the hypothesis that welfare can be shut off like a leaky faucet and the poor will suddenly become motivated toward...
View ArticleIn NYC, Port Authority tells group not to hand out blankets, doesn't want...
Volunteers with Saxon/Hart tried to help those in need during frigid temperatures by handing out blankets at New York City's Port Authority Bus Terminal and were shocked when authorities turned them...
View ArticleMan desperately trying to get out of the cold dies on stairs in front of...
As sub-zero temps swept into much of the country, Kenneth Winfield made his way to a Louisville homeless shelter in November: "He started crying," recalled Maria Price, executive director of the day...
View ArticleRep. Glenn Grothman urges constituents to keep an eye out for poor people at...
As the man most likely to someday usurp Rep. Louie Gohmert's throne as America's Dumbest Congressman, Wisconsin's Rep. Glenn Grothman has some mighty big shoes to fill. I think he's up to the...
View ArticleFighting child hunger ... with money cut from food stamp program
Three states and two tribal nations will get $27 million in grants to help fight child hunger, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced. Nice, right? Wellll ... there's a catch, as Ned...
View ArticleThere's a better way to use food stamps to encourage healthy eating
One of the changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program that well-meaning people on the left and not-so-well-meaning people on the right sometimes float is to make it more like the Women,...
View ArticleSeniors & Food Insecurity
Short diary - but hopefully helpful to someone.When I was young– we were really poor – dirt poor farmers and we use to receive a box of USDA commodity food every once in a while (I was young and didn’t...
View ArticleOlder Americans Act - Senior Nutrition Program (IIIC) - Part 1
Continuing a series of posts on Older Americans Act (OAA) Programs, this post will give an overview of the goals and services of the Senior Nutrition Program. Next week, I hope to continue with part 2...
View ArticleMO lawmakers introduce bill to prevent food stamp recipients from buying fish...
Better put that steak and lobster back! Missouri lawmakers are on a new quest to further demoralize and degrade citizens who rely on SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). State...
View ArticleAmerica, look in the mirror, your children are starving
I’m in a rage right now. Washington is not playing political games. They are destroying our country and our people. America is a world leader in child hunger, poverty, and homelessness. We are...
View ArticleThe Food Is in the Mail (Again)
Wow, did you know tomorrow is National Babysitters Day? It's also Miniature Golf Day, Lost Sock Memorial Day and Stay Up All Night Day (waking lost socks, presumably).It's also my favorite holiday, one...
View ArticleWisconsin Legislature really is insane
Reading this list from the Wisconsin DHS https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/... just makes me angrier the more I look at it.It's inconsistent (you can buy fresh sweet potatoes/yams but not canned for...
View ArticleSmall Organic Business of Minority Owner Needs Your 2 Clicks
Flora's Organics is the tiny one-woman organic seedling/plant/flower/veg/fruit nursery of VERY LOW INCOME kosak Mona Twocats-Romero, a Native American in the running at the WellsFargo Works Project...
View ArticleBaltimore school lunch is now free to all children
Time to focus on learning and not whether or not there's food on the table With school lunches leading to outlawing kindness in many places, Baltimore public schools will take the historic step of...
View ArticleBernie Sanders: Millions of Seniors Go Hungry (video)
Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke on the Senate floor Monday about the critical need to reauthorize and to increase funding for the Older Americans Act (OAA),...
View ArticleTop comments: Hand to Mouth
Linda Tirado's book Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America started off as an online post. She'd seen a zillion variations on the question (sometimes well-meaning, sometimes victim-blamey): "Why...
View ArticleFood stamps for 45 million people would shut down with the government
There aren't enough food banks and emergency assistance centers to deal with this impending crisis. If the government shuts down at the beginning of next month, people will go hungry. This is likely a...
View ArticleGovernment Shutdown Will Stop Food Stamps
As a possible shutdown looms nearer, the USDA worries that it will not be able to fund its food benefits program.
View ArticleJohn Oliver takes on America's 'Food Insecurity' problems
At a time when so many of us are thinking about those "less fortunate than us" -- and how in the world we can possibly help them ...Americans are still breaking our own records, in our "just throwing...
View ArticleIncrease the Harvest is feeding hungry children in Chicago’s Austin community
It was an unseasonably warm late October afternoon in the Austin neighborhood of West Side Chicago. A steady stream of school children and their parents stepped into the office of Increase the Harvest...
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