Three ways you can fight school lunch shaming
Lunch shaming – when a child is punished for not having enough money to buy a meal at school – needs to end. You can help.Imagine a little kid at school, in line for his daily lunch. He might not have...
View ArticleAnti-hunger workers boo Trump administration's Depression-era plan for...
Campaign ActionA Trump administration representative got booed, laughed at and walked out on when he showed up at the National Anti-Hunger Policy Conference and touted the administration’s plan to take...
View ArticleWhy SNAP? Everything You Need to Know About America’s Largest Anti-Hunger...
Why do we need SNAP?SNAP, and other anti-hunger programs, are vital to ending hunger in America.Eighty years ago, Franklin D. Roosevelt found “one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad,...
View ArticleHungry, Homeless, Desperate
Today I saw the first desperate request of a person driven to ask for help from a non-profit site I work for as a volunteer moderator. We are not a charitable organization. We exist solely to recycle...
View ArticleCandemonium (Photos): Street Prophets Coffee Hour
Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. Candemonium 2018 was a series of mall displays of movie themes made from...
View ArticleLife for working poor in Paul Ryan and Scott Walker's Wisconsin: 'Help is so...
House Speaker Paul Ryan has been taking a page from his home-state governor, Scott Walker, in figuring out how to make life as humiliating and difficult and miserable as possible, or maybe it's the...
View ArticleBen Carson wants to triple rents for low-income Americans with housing...
Campaign ActionThe more than 4.5 million families which rely on federal housing assistance should be paying a lot more in rents, says Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson. Three times as...
View ArticleGiveNOLA. But Which One?
Today is a very special day in New Orleans, GiveNOLA Day, when people are encouraged with PR campaigns and matching grants to give to local non-profits. Last year’s campaigns were very successful, with...
View ArticleRural areas fear the impact of House Republicans' food assistance cuts
Campaign ActionWhen you think of the farm bill and rural communities, you think about the price supports and the crop insurance and the various other programs it contains for farmers, all of which help...
View ArticleThe Food Is in the Mail! Today's the Letter Carrier Food Drive!
Many thanks to Jake Bodhi for the timely reminder: it’s the second Saturday in May, which means today is the National Assn. of Letter Carriers FOOD DRIVE, when you’re friendly postal pals make it easy...
View ArticleTrump may try to demonize food stamps even further
In an attempt to find new ways to make life worse for people receiving any government benefits, the Trump administration is seeking to lump together all government benefit programs into a renamed and...
View ArticleNews flash: Trump and Republicans ARE trying to harm kids in Idaho and Texas
The official Trump state media folks at Fox & Friends doing their best for white supremacy wanted everyone to know that Trump's mass kidnappings of immigrant children is fine because "[t]hese...
View ArticleTrump administration calls 'war on poverty' over, moves on to war on poor people
Campaign ActionThe Council of Economic Advisers for popular vote loser Donald Trump released a report Thursday in which they declare that the decades-old war on poverty "is largely over and a success,"...
View ArticleStephen Miller's latest racist attack has immigrants pulling their kids out...
The Trump administration’s proposed rule punishing immigrants who have accessed benefits like nutrition programs for their U.S. citizen kids hasn’t gone into effect yet, but it’s already having the...
View ArticleCalifornia Food Banks affected by Fires
I wanted to make a quick observation about the effects of the California fires beyond the fire area.As many of you already know, I’ve been working as a substitute teacher while I’m preparing to start...
View ArticleFood bank leaders blast Trump admin's 'public charge' change: 'Hunger is not...
Campaign ActionFood banks say that the Trump administration’s discriminatory proposed rule change, which punishes working immigrant parents by denying them a green card to legally access programs that...
View Article13 ways it costs more to be poor
In July 1960, James Baldwin wrote the following in an article in Esquire, “Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a Letter from Harlem”: “Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is...
View ArticleUrgent. $600 million needed for the food assistance program (NAP) for Puerto...
Dear Pendejo POTUS — paper towels have no nutritional value.The grifting, bloated, well-fed Trump Administration has stated that additional food aid for Puerto Rico is “excessive and unnecessary.” As...
View ArticleUrgent! Contact your Senators. 1.4 million Puerto Ricans losing food...
When you have your breakfast, lunch or dinner today — count your blessings. Unless we mobilize and apply pressure on the U.S. Senate, far too many of our fellow citizens in Puerto Rico will soon be...
View ArticleStates sue Trump for killing Michelle Obama program to make school lunches...
Donald Trump hasn’t started using America’s school lunches to get rid of his stock of unwanted cold “hamberders.” Yet. However, he did roll back nutritional guidelines, allowing schools to load up...
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