Hunger costs the United States $160 billion every year in chronic health...
Bread for the World, a Christian organization, has released a “Hunger Report.” In it, Bread for the World tries to accomplish something not done in previous hunger studies which is to separate the...
View ArticleHow Republican policies actually send people to the hospital
Making sure that people in our communities don’t go hungry is the right thing to do—the right thing for the government to do, specifically, to express that not going hungry is a right rather than an...
View Article31,000 people are set to lose food stamps on January 1 in Louisiana
When Governor Bobby Jindal wasn’t trying to announce his failed bid for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination via reality TV stunt, he was being the hard-lined Republican leader of Louisiana....
View ArticleMore than nutrition is delivered in Meals on Wheels programs, study finds
It’s not just the food, it’s the deliverer.A new study shows that the break in social isolation may be nearly as important as meeting the nutritional needs of seniors when weighing the importance of...
View ArticleFood stamps kept 5 million people out of poverty—2 million of those people...
“Nearly one in seven American households experienced food insecurity in 2014.”This is from a report the Council of Economic Advisers has released titled Long-Term Benefits Of The Supplemental Nutrition...
View ArticleAs many as a million Americans will be booted off food stamps this year
The good news is that the economy continues to "improve." The bad news is that somewhere between a million and half-million Americans will be booted off SNAP (food stamps) in the coming year because...
View ArticleA better plan to provide school lunches to children who need them
The Obama administration announced plans today for a pilot program to increase the number of low-income children who have access to the National School Lunch Program.Let’s see: Poor kids + free lunch =...
View ArticleRepublican congressman pushes drug testing for food stamps
Drug testing for government assistance is a big trend among Republican state legislators and governors over the last few years, and they’ve run into a number of snags along the way—little things like...
View ArticleThe Republican war on poor people's grocery lists continues
When it comes to what poor people eat, Republicans love them some big government. Republicans across the country keep coming up with bills to ban people from using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...
View ArticleKansas City Community Kitchen is doing something amazing
The Episcopal Community Services have come up with a new philosophy on dealing with their food kitchen in Kansas City. They have begun to implement an idea they call “dining with dignity.” Anyone can...
View ArticleClimate change in the food deserts: Yes, we can!
Are you someone who wants to make live better for people who live in “food deserts”? Do you shop at farmers’ markets? Do you ever talk with the produce manager at your local grocery store? Do you have...
View ArticleRepublicans mull over cutting a number of free school meals available to kids
Nothing says to the world “I’m a piece of shit” like thinking about taking food out of the mouths of children who don’t have food. Welcome to the Republican House of Representatives!Legislation debated...
View ArticleBoy asks his mother to pack two lunches for fellow student not eating at...
An Albuquerque, New Mexico mother posted a Facebook Live video on her very active Facebook account. In it she told an emotional story of packing an extra lunch for her eighth grade son. She had been...
View ArticleA Lake for Lin: A Community Fundraiser for an Eco-Warrior In the Fight of Her...
Joy is a lake.Grief is a river.You can lose yourself in one; be lost in the other.I wrote those words on the first day of this month. Then, I had no idea how soon I would have reason to understand, yet...
View ArticleWhen the Water Meets the Light: Linda McClure, April 22, 1953-December 28, 2016
Joy is a lake. Grief is a river. You can lose yourself in one; be lost in the other. As this day dawns, we are in the river: swept along in the rapids, sucked under here, dashed on the rocks there,...
View ArticleGood Films on Food, Farming, Gardening
I subscribe to the NE Food mailing list (nefood@elist.tufts.edu) for those with an interest in food and agriculture in the NE region. Recently, there was an active conversation started by one person...
View ArticleBetsy DeVos jokes at CPAC that school lunches should not be free because...
So this was reported coming out of CPAC this morning. xDeVos intros herself @ CPAC as "perhaps the first person to tell Bernie Sanders to his face that there is no such thing as a free lunch"— Dan...
View ArticleSubversive: How the Black Panthers fed kids for free and set a model for the...
Last week, I wrote a story about how Republicans in Congress are trying to reform the free breakfast program in schools. This is not new. Republicans have been trying for quite some time to cut this...
View ArticleTrump's budget cuts mean hundreds of thousands of mothers and their children...
You’ve already read about the amazing callousness shown towards the American people by Republicans Paul Ryan and unpopular President Donald Trump in their health care plans and their budget plans. One...
View ArticleMeals-on-Wheels SAVES money! And I can prove it.
So if you think that GOVERNMENT IS THE PROBLEM, I want to tell you about myself.Why?Because I am the government. Me and hundreds of thousands of people just like me.For 15 years I worked for a city...
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