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Food pantries across Iowa are taking part in the Healthy Kids Iowa pilot, which gives $40 worth of food monthly to 65,000 ...
Hunger continues to impact thousands of families across Louisiana, where food insecurity remains one of the state’s most ...
SNAP, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, has proven vital in preventing food insecurity and hunger, especially ...
In Massachusetts, about 900,000 households — or 1.9 million people — are facing food insecurity, an increase from last year, according to GBFB’s recent report that surveyed 3,000 residents.
Free school lunches, a pillar of Brazil's anti-poverty efforts, are now one of its main weapons against surging post-pandemic hunger. And that's not the only benefit.
The primary cause of the rise in food insecurity and hunger is soaring food prices, exacerbated by cuts in federal social programs that had been expanded as part of the COVID-19 pandemic state of ...
Food insecurity is rising in the U.S. as the end of pandemic-era aid and higher food costs strain low-income Americans, according to data released on Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau and two ...
Return to pandemic hunger levels could signal economic fragility Vegetables and fruits are pictured after being restocked at The Community Assistance Center in ...
As economists and investors scour data on inflation, jobs, housing, banking and other bellwether indicators to determine whether the United States is headed for a recession, a visit to the nation ...
And while visits to the city’s food pantries and other hunger assistance programs remain up 80% over pre-pandemic levels — during a time when people were receiving extra SNAP funds — New ...
Think of hunger as another kind of pandemic that, however little noticed, can also overwhelm a health-care system (or at least that modest part of ours devoted to the neediest among us).