Indiana School District sends hungry students home with packaged, unused...
Some good news. Low-income students in the Elkhart, Indiana area are being sent home with twenty frozen meals on Fridays. The students get two meals per day during the school week (breakfast and...
View Article14 years ago, chef's mother made him cook a meal for hungry child. He has now...
Chef Bruno Serato has served millions of meals to children in need during the past 14 years. Born in France to Italian parents, Serato moved to the United States in 1980. According to Serato, on April...
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...
View ArticleIndiana School District sends hungry students home with packaged, unused...
Some good news. Low-income students in the Elkhart, Indiana area are being sent home with twenty frozen meals on Fridays. The students get two meals per day during the school week (breakfast and...
View Article14 years ago, chef's mother made him cook a meal for hungry child. He has now...
Chef Bruno Serato has served millions of meals to children in need during the past 14 years. Born in France to Italian parents, Serato moved to the United States in 1980. According to Serato, on April...
View ArticleGOP lawmaker declares, 'Nobody goes to sleep wondering if they'll be able to...
An estimated 40 million people live in food-insecure households in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Around 6.5 million of those people are children. And an additional...
View ArticlePhilando Castile’s mom pays the lunch debts of seniors at a MN high school,...
I hadn’t seen any mention of this on DKos yet, and I felt this deserves recognition- Philando Castile’s Mom Donates $8,000 to Settle Lunch Debt Preventing HS Seniors from Graduating:Three years after...
View ArticleRI School district rebuffs private donation to cover delinquent lunch fees,...
On Monday, the Warwick, Rhode Island, school district will impose some good old conservative austerity measures. It will be cutting back on the variety of food that some children in its schools are...
View ArticleChobani Yogurt announces it will pay off all of Rhode Island Warwick School...
Earlier this week reports came out that the Warwick School District in Rhode Island was about to implement a policy that students who had outstanding school lunch debt would only be served sunflower...
View ArticleOne in 12 senior citizens didn't have enough food in 2017
Feeding America, a nonprofit organization which operates hundreds of food banks around the country, reports that 5.5 million seniors, 7.7% of the population over 60, didn't have enough food in 2017,...
View ArticleNJ school district debates whether or not to feed kids who owe more than $20...
Another day, another school debating whether or not to punish hungry kids because they can’t afford to pay for their lunches. Today’s horror brings us to New Jersey, where students at the Cherry Hill...
View ArticleStudy: Higher state test scores tied to universal free lunch, regardless of...
New York City public school students do better on state testing when they all receive a free lunch, regardless of income, says a new study out of Syracuse University’s Center for Policy Research....
View ArticleCity Agriculture - November 7, 2019
Net Zero plant-filled Singapore pavilion for Dubai’s 2020 World Expo...
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