Food pantries across the country are suffering from the supply shortage
This article was originally published at PrismMaria Vazquez needs 10 to 15 gallons of whole milk to make quesos. She’s been making and selling them for years in Immokalee, Florida, as a source of...
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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 ArticleStudent debt is racking up after free meal programs that covered over 50...
Students across the nation are being saddled with school debt—before they even graduate from high school. They’re racking up that debt because a federal assistance program that paid for school meals...
View ArticleThree Teenagers and a Baby
I never wanted to write a diary. I had to write this diary. Tonight I visited a local discount store and on exiting a young man asked me for spare change. I kept walking. When I got into my car I...
View ArticleParty enraged over '$18 eggs' wants to take food away from children and...
It’s that time again. The time when lawmakers have to reauthorize the behemoth farm bill and Republicans try to flex their muscle and prove how much they want to cut government spending. They’re not...
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Helping Humpday: We have urgent and time-sensitive needs. Please read to the...
Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour, a place where politics meets up with religion, art, nature, food, and life. We’re at the middle of the week, when we need a push to get over the hump and...
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Fighting to save Compton's only community garden, and the regenerative ag...
As everyone (who’s been paying attention) knows, community gardens benefit the physical, environmental, and mental health of people and business in the neighborhood, by empowering people to have...
View ArticleIdle Hands Are the Devil’s Workshop
Idle hands are the devil’s workshop. Or is it the devils’ workshop? I’m unsure. I could perform a web search – but I don’t care how many devils people blame this on… it’s all scapegoating and...
View ArticleFood Insecurity Plagues Twenty-First Century America
Last summer, Feeding America published Map the Meal Gap, a study which found that food insecurity exists in all 3,143 counties and county equivalents as well as 436 congressional districts in all 50...
View Article“Community Fridges” Address Hunger, Climate Change, and Human Dignity
Copying link from Mother Jones, which does not have a paywall. This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.www.motherjones.com/…When I...
View ArticleMillions of families have gone hungry since Republicans and Joe Manchin ended...
According to a new U.S. Department of Agriculture report, in 2022, the United States experienced more than a 30% spike in food insecurity among Americans and a 44% increase among children. That...
View ArticleWorking to end ‘food apartheid’
In low-income areas of Los Angeles without supermarkets, small stores are learning to profitably sell healthy foods their customers can afford.By George B. Sánchez-Tello for Capital & MainThe...
View Article14 GOP-led states that rejected money to help feed kids this summer
The federal government’s Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer program, which provides low-income families with $120 in food assistance per eligible child while schools are out of session, will officially...
View Article“Community Fridges” Address Hunger, Climate Change, and Human Dignity
Copying link from Mother Jones, which does not have a paywall. This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.www.motherjones.com/…When I...
View Article13 states with Republican governors opt out of summer food program for kids
by Robbie Sequeira, South Carolina Daily GazetteA new, permanent summer grocery program will help nearly 21 million kids across 37 states get enough to eat this year while school’s out.But 13 states...
View ArticleFamilies struggle to eat in Republican-led states that denied federal aid
Crystal Ripolio had tears in her eyes as she walked the produce line at the Good News Outreach food bank in Tallahassee. It was the bags of ripe peaches that did her in.“We don’t have anything in our...
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Don't Serve Shame for Lunch: We Need Universal School Meals.
Universal school meals for every child regardless of income help kids and schools succeed. A hungry child is a cranky, distracted, disruptive child. Hunger not only makes it harder for kids to learn,...
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