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SNAP Benefits: Which Cities Have the Most People on Food Stamps? USA Today For Many College Students, Hunger 'Makes It Hard to Focus'. NPR Food Program Makes 'Big Time' Difference to Needy Families Seeking Healthy Options. Kansas City Star A Pioneering Massachusetts Program Helps Low-Income Residents Eat Healthier and Supports Local Farmers. Civil Eats Center School District Is Serving Breakfast In Every Classroom - And Boosting The Protein. KCUR.
Opinion: If Congress Changes Food Stamp Requirements, Kids Will Go Hungry. New York Times. Here's How You Can Help Hungry Kids When School's Out for Summer. Today. Children's Exposure to Food Insecurity is Still Worse than it was Before the Great Recession. Brookings. How Food Insecurity May Harm 5-year-olds. WLRN. Struggling Farmers Turn Excess Milk into Cheese and Yogurt for the Hungry. NPR. 30 Million Children Rely on Free School Lunch. Where Do They Eat When School's Out? New Food Economy. The Terms On A Food Label To Ignore and the Ones To Watch For. New York Times. Mobile Food Banks Roll to Isolated, Rural Poor. Pew. Opinion: Did We Win the War on Poverty? The Washington Post.
Too Poor to Afford Food, Too Rich to Qualify for Help. CNN 50 Million American Households Can't Even Afford Basic Living Expenses. Market Watch It's time to Stop Believing These Four Myths About Food Stamps. Real Simple Are Social Determinants the Missing Key to Improving Health? Forbes
U.N.'S Poverty and Human Rights Special Rapporteur Finds U.S. Policies Reward Wealthy, Punish Poor. Los Angeles Times. American Cities are Failing on Sustainable Development. Fast Company. Dr. Gupta: After All My Years of Reporting, This Haunts Me. CNN. House Narrowly Approves Farm Bill that could Cut Food Stamps to Million of Low-Income Americans. CNBC. Trump Wants to Move Food Stamps to a New Agency, that could make the Program Easier to Overhaul. Washington Post. Food Stamp Enrollment Reaches Lowest Level in 8 Years - That May Not Be A Cause for Celebration. Newsweek. This Start-up Can Make Avocados Last Twice As long Before Going Bad. Los Angeles Times.
How Work Requirements for Social Security Programs Impact People in Need. PBS. 50-something Food Stamp Recipients Could Face Tough Job Search under Proposed Rules. McClatchy DC. USDA Brainstorms Food Waste Solutions with Stakeholders. Waste Dive. Americans Waste About A Pound of Food A Day, USDA Study Finds. Forbes. Why Millions of Californians Eligible for Food Stamps Don't Get Them. NPR. New Evidence Shows that our Anti-Poverty Programs, especially Social Security, Work Well. Los Angeles Times. Cod and 'Immune Broth': California Tests Food as Medicine. New York Times.
Home Delivered Meals Might Reduce ER Visits, Study Suggests. Washington Post. Food Stamps Aren't A Substitute for Work. They're How Low-Wage Workers Avoid Hunger. The American Prospect. The Surprising Time Food Banks Need Donations the Most. Real Simple. Have You Noticed How Poor People are Bankrupting the Government? Neither Have We. Washington Post. Tariffs Making Buzz, but the Farm Bill May Also have Big Impact on Retailers. Forbes.
Lawmakers Push for Military Access to Food Assistance Program. Military. Striking Teachers Go Out of Their Way to Make Sure Students Have Food. Today. In Striking Nationwide Trend, Hospitals Take on Hunger to Improve Overall Health. Civil Eats. Will Nutrition Reforms Once Again Divide the Farm Bill Coalition? Ag Week. Food Assistance Advocates Wary of SNAP Food Box Proposal Prices. Bloomberg.
More than Half of American Babies are at Risk for Malnourishment. Huffington Post Who's Able-Bodied Anyway? New York Times Super Bowl LII will be the First Zero-Waste Big Game. Fast Company Anti-Hunger Groups and Retailers Protest Trump's 'Harvest Box' Plan. Chicago Tribune Blindsided by 'Harvest Box' Pitch. Politico Not exactly Blue April: the Problem with Replacing Food Stamps with 'Harvest Box'. Kansas City Star Food Box Idea Draws Criticism from Democrats, Advocates. Associated Press Companies and Non-Profits Can Now Post on Facebook's Community Help During a Crisis. Mashable These Repurposed Folk Tales Tell the Story of Hunger in the U.S. Ad Age Using Art to Tackle Diabetes in Youth. New York Times
New Year's Resolution: Worry About Your Food Waste. SC Times. To End A Food Desert, These Community Members Opened Their Own Grocery. Fast Company. Brain Food. UVA Today. Severe Obesity Declining Among Low-Income U.S. Kids. Reuters. Counting the Beans: New Tool Measures the True Cost of Food. Food Tank. While We Waste Food, Others Waste Away. Baltimore Sun. Food Stamp Program Makes Fresh Produce More Affordable. NPR. Sustainable Forests for Food Security and Nutrition. Food Tank. It's Hard to Study if You're Hungry. New York Times.
KU Fights Hunger forms New Committee to Raise Awareness about food Insecurity. The University Daily Kansan. Harvesters team up with Good Samaritan to focus on health. The Excelsior Springs Standard. Decade since recession: Thriving cities leave others behind. AP. State group: USDA mulling big changes to food stamps, including allowing states to impose soda ban. Washington Post. Charities' Fear Under Tax Bill: Less Money to Help the Needy. New York Times. Hungry on Campus. Huffington Post. Juggling Bills Often Accompanies Food Insecurity. PsychCentral. I Never Knew How Wrong I Was About People on Food Stamps Until I Was One of Them. MIC. Black Families are Sowing the Seeds of health and Empowerment. NPR. Food Swamps are the New Food Deserts. The Atlantic. This App Helps Food Stamps Last Longer and Recipients Avoid Going Hungry. Forbes. Extreme Poverty Returns to America. Washington Post. Vending Machine for the Homeless Coming to U.S. in 2018. CBS New York.
Healthy Food is a right, Not a Luxury. Washington Post. Beyond Winning and Losing in the Tax Reform Debate. Kansas City Star. Childcare Staff Behavior May Encourage Kids to Sample Healthier Food. Reuters. Hunger is a Bigger Problem than You Think at America's Colleges. Fox News. Large Numbers of Aging Veterans are Malnourished. Next Avenue. Nutrition Assistance Programs and Medicaid are Sound Investments for Young Kids. The Hill. New Study Finds that 4.2 Million Kids Experience Homelessness Each Year. NPR. Breakfast Program at Webb City Schools. Joplin Globe. Federal Nutrition Assistance Programs Participation May Save Money on Health Care Expenditures. Huffington Post. Feeding the Need: Expanding School Lunch Programs. CBS News.
Oh SNAP! It's Been 40 Years Since the Food Stamps Act. Washington Post. US Middle Class Gets Richer, but Wealthy Do Even Better. New York Times. The New Reality of Old Age in America. Washington Post. Your turn: Vote to End Hunger in our School District. Lawrence Journal World. Why Paying for Nutrition Saves Money on Health Care. Time. Study Suggests When Mobile Markets Take Wireless Food Stamps, More People Buy Healthy Food. PBS Newshour. Despite Rosy Data, Millions of Americans Languish in Poverty. The Hill. For many older Americans, the rat race is over. But the inequality isn't. The Washington Post. Storm Victim Finds Help, and Purpose, at a Houston Food Bank. New York Times. 'Like Going Back in Time': Puerto Ricans Put Survival Skills to Use. New York Times. A Report from the #RealCollege Conference on Food Insecurity of Students. Inside Higher Ed. 3 Reasons Hunger is Your Problem Even If You Never Worry About Food. Hello Giggles This Emotional World Food Day PSA Reminds Us that Hunger Has No Face. Adweek
Using Technology to Combat Intergenerational Poverty. Forbes article. Who Suffers When Disasters Strike? The Poorest and Most Vulnerable. Washington Post article. Start Ups Finally Taking on Food Stamps. Wired article. Will the Trump Era Transform the School Lunch? New York Times article. Food Banks Fight Against Food Stamp Cuts. Politico article.
America Can’t Make Progress on the Fight Against Food Insecurity. Fast Company.
Senate Panel Hears of Manipulation of Food Stamp Error Rates, Seeks Improvements. USA Today.
Childhood Hunger Cookbook author crusades for millions of kids who go hungry in summer. NPR The Salt Students without food. Inside Higher Education 1 in 6 US kids struggle with hunger. CNN Food Waste New Jersey is cutting food waste to help the climate. Salon General Stories No, poor people don't eat more junk food than anyone else. Vox Beyond pantries - This Food Bank Invests in the Local Community. NPR How much it costs to stock the average family refrigerator. Chicago Tribune Senior Hunger Hunger receded after the recession but not for older Americans, U.S. figures show. Washington Post
Editorial Hunger and the heartland - needs multiply during summer months. KC Star editorial.