Julián Castro releases plan to combat hunger, including universal free lunch...
2020 presidential hopeful Julián Castro unveiled his People First Plan to End Hunger in America on Wednesday, Nov. 27. The sweeping plan seeks to combat hunger by minimizing food deserts, expanding the...
View ArticleTrump's food assistance cuts will have huge ripple effect, especially for...
The 700,000 people expected to lose food assistance because of new rules the Trump administration will put in effect next spring aren't going to be the only ones harmed by the cuts, experts say. The...
View ArticleDKos Asheville Open Thread: Cold and Homeless
Good day and welcome to DKos Asheville. This is the weekly DKos Asheville Open Thread for Saturday, 18th 2020.We offer this space every weekend to share what we're up to in Western North Carolina and...
View ArticleHere's another way to fight Trump: Help feed people
Cruelty is the point for Donald Trump and his minions, to the point of making more Americans go hungry. The work requirements and other restrictions the administration is imposing on Supplemental...
View ArticleIf You’re Stocking Up, Can I Ask a Favor?
Many Americans, including people here on DK, are taking rational, prudent steps to get their households prepared for possible disruptions from the spread of the coronavirus. The basic preparations are...
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Decrease the surplus population, indeed.
I’m so very tired. You’d think I’d be in the cream. The entire world is living like me now, socially distancing, talking mostly online, getting to experience the day-to-day within their house and walls...
View ArticleGrocery chain Publix promises to buy excess dairy and produce from farmers to...
As the nation faces the novel coronavirus pandemic, many people are feeling the dire panic of not being able to afford food and household items. As we’ve seen already, lines of cars upon cars have...
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Trump's USDA allows millions of pounds of food to rot while Americans line up...
Millions of pounds of fresh produce have been dumped or allowed to rot in open fields, even as hundreds of thousands of Americans have been lining up at food banks, and even as farmers begged Trump’s...
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One of every 5 young children goes hungry as the U.S. faces its worst food...
Nowhere is the stark divide of inequality in this country coming into sharper relief than in the statistics on hunger that have now begun to emerge with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. As observed...
View ArticleInequality of Food
I started farming three years ago after quitting my job as a manager for a small store. I never liked working for an employer and I have PTSD that I was diagnosed with in the Air Force and still...
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Kentucky Garbage Man Hadn't Seen Elderly Woman's Trash Can Out, Rightly Felt...
Jake Bland has dual roles at his job at Hometown Hauling, a refuse collection company in Louisville, Kentucky. He’s the operations manager and he’s also on the truck picking up his customers trash. He...
View ArticleTrump administration tells states to go to 'normal' operations, start...
While most of the supply chain issues for food that arose at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis have been resolved, food costs for consumers are still higher than they were back in January, in...
View ArticleCoronavirus pandemic—and Republican refusal to extend aid—leads to soaring...
Six or eight million people have fallen into poverty since the coronavirus stimulus ended, depending on how you measure it. Either way, it’s a damn lot of people who are suddenly poor because a...
View ArticleAs Trump lauds stock market, food bank lines swell, and another 1.1M file for...
As hospitals filled with ever-more coronavirus patients, food bank queues swelled, new applications for unemployment insurance rose for the second straight week, and there was zero sign that Mitch...
View ArticlePlease donate this holiday: Families going hungry at rates not seen since...
Stories have been pouring forth across the country of food pantries seeing Depression-era levels of hunger and food insecurity. The Rhode Island Community Food Bank, for instance, says the number of...
View ArticleWhen donating to your local food bank, don't forget the spices (seriously)
If there’s one piece of advice people love offering up to low-income folks, it’s that you can save money by cooking at home. On the surface, that’s understandable—if you prepare your meal at home, you...
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Dem and Fluffy the Great are Trapped with No Heat and Little Food!!!
This is Fluffy and Dem’s world today (Monday morning)I’m writing this diary for Dem and Mighty Fluffy the Great because they need help from the community again! The power at Dem’s apartment in Texas...
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World Central Kitchen is helping out in Texas
This just arrived in an email newsletter from World Central Kitchen:Snow, ice, and freezing temperatures swept across Texas this week, causing massive power outages and leaving millions without heat...
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Meteor Blades is retiring, and it's impossible for me to fully express my...
Our beloved Meteor Blades, a true Daily Kos OG (UID: 6, and I’m 3), is retiring. It’s one of those things you expect, but there’s no way you can prepare for it. Meteor Blades, aka “Tim,” has been such...
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Decrease the surplus population, indeed.
I’m so very tired. You’d think I’d be in the cream. The entire world is living like me now, socially distancing, talking mostly online, getting to experience the day-to-day within their house and walls...
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