Grocery 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...
View ArticleUSDA extends universal free lunch through June 2022, giving families one less...
As the world faces the novel coronavirus pandemic, most everyone’s life has been affected in one way or another. People have lost jobs, worried about evictions, frequented food banks, and perhaps even...
View ArticleBiden administration continues to undo Trump's cruel food assistance policies
The Biden administration ended one of Trump's most cruel proposals Wednesday, ending an effort to kick 3 million people off of food assistance and end free school meals for about at least half a...
View Article'Hunger is fading back as an unseen issue' but it isn't going away, food...
Massive food bank lines became some of the most iconic and disturbing images of the COVID-19 economy. Now, unemployment is dropping and the Biden administration has increased food aid—but advocates are...
View ArticleStudy: Food assistance falls far short of meeting the needs of America's food...
Congress stepped up for food insecure people in this pandemic, boosting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funds by 15%. But that still left hungry people in 41% of U.S. counties where...
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The Inoculation Project 8.15.2021: Food gardens at a Texas border school and...
This week, we're helping to provide gardening materials for hands-on environmental science lessons for 2nd-graders in a border community school in Texas and middle school students in the metro Atlanta...
View ArticleNearly one in four people in the U.S. still struggle with food insecurity,...
Like the coronavirus pandemic, food insecurity continues even when it recedes from the headlines. A new poll finds 23% of people in the U.S. haven’t been able to get enough to eat or haven’t been able...
View Article36 million families won't get a child tax credit check this week, thanks to...
Campaign Action Thanks to Manchin’s specific opposition to the child tax credit, even attempting to pass it as a stand-alone bill while the rest of Build Back Better is negotiated would be unlikely to...
View ArticleFood pantries across the country are suffering from the supply shortage
The scarcity results from a nationwide food and supply shortage caused by the widespread omicron variant. Grocery store workers and truck drivers have had to call out sick en masse while employees are...
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Museum of Glass: Indices del Pacifico (photo diary)
The Museum of Glass (MOG) in Tacoma, Washington is the West Coast’s largest and most active museum glass studio. One of the recent MOG exhibitions was Counterparts: Glass + Art Elements which groups...
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Saturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 18.32 - Food Security, part 1 of 4:...
FOOD SECURITY, part 1 of 4: ProductionFood security is a topic that has received increasing coverage in the media and increasing interest among the public over the last decade or so. While each of us...
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Epic Lies on Real Poverty Levels and Fighting Crime by Fighting Poverty
I thought I’d start by shooting down our government’s dollar figures for how many Americans are living under poverty. One need not be a financial genius to figure out how badly the number of poor...
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No food in the pantry
Starting in 2011 when I was diagnosed with cancer, my fortune has taken a turn for the worse. Among other things, my income is so low that I’m eligible to get free food from food banks here in town....
View ArticleUSDA extends universal free lunch through June 2022, giving families one less...
As the world faces the novel coronavirus pandemic, most everyone’s life has been affected in one way or another. People have lost jobs, worried about evictions, frequented food banks, and perhaps even...
View ArticleBiden administration continues to undo Trump's cruel food assistance policies
The Biden administration ended one of Trump's most cruel proposals Wednesday, ending an effort to kick 3 million people off of food assistance and end free school meals for about at least half a...
View Article'Hunger is fading back as an unseen issue' but it isn't going away, food...
Massive food bank lines became some of the most iconic and disturbing images of the COVID-19 economy. Now, unemployment is dropping and the Biden administration has increased food aid—but advocates are...
View ArticleStudy: Food assistance falls far short of meeting the needs of America's food...
Congress stepped up for food insecure people in this pandemic, boosting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) funds by 15%. But that still left hungry people in 41% of U.S. counties where...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Inoculation Project 8.15.2021: Food gardens at a Texas border school and...
This week, we're helping to provide gardening materials for hands-on environmental science lessons for 2nd-graders in a border community school in Texas and middle school students in the metro Atlanta...
View ArticleNearly one in four people in the U.S. still struggle with food insecurity,...
Like the coronavirus pandemic, food insecurity continues even when it recedes from the headlines. A new poll finds 23% of people in the U.S. haven’t been able to get enough to eat or haven’t been able...
View Article36 million families won't get a child tax credit check this week, thanks to...
On Jan. 15, around 36 million households with children won’t get a payment that many had come to rely on over the previous six months. Thanks to Sen. Joe Manchin and every single Senate Republican, the...
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