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Is increased biofuel demand in the US causing more poor in Central America to...
Richard Perry/The New York Times A worthy and overlooked story in the NYT by Elizabeth Rosenthal about a new economic riptide hitting Central America, a result of America's changing corn policy. The US...
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Schoolhouse Rock-style PSA about getting food stamps
https://youtu.be/Q_bfPm4UQFs Lexie Kahanovitz and her colleagues made a two-minute, hand-drawn Schoolhouse Rock-style PSA about "what to do if your student debt has your food budget at zero. It's...
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500,000 to 1M unemployed Americans will lose food aid next month
On April 1, 22 states will roll back their food stamps rules to pre-crisis levels, so adults without dependents or disabilities will only be entitled to "three months of food stamps in any three-year...
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Helicopter was sent to fetch Alabama governor's wallet: "I had to buy...
Alabama governor Robert Bentley left his wallet in Tuscaloosa when he headed off for his beach house. So his aides sent a state police helicopter to fetch it, at a public cost of about $4000. "I...
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14% of Americans -- 48 million people -- are "food insecure," and it's about...
People are "food insecure" if they lack access to "enough food for an active, healthy life." There are 48 million Americans who live in food insecurity, thanks to a combination of nearly all the...
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6.8 million teens & tweens are hungry in America, girls are trading sex for food
The nonprofit Urban Institute's new study, Impossible Choices: Teens and Food Insecurity in America used paired, single-gender focus groups in 10 urban communities to learn about the hunger and food...
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Miniature free food pantries based on Little Free Library concept
People's Pantry Cincy in Cincinnati, Ohio commissioned artists to convert old newspaper boxes into miniature food pantries for neighborhood residents to donate or take food items. “As a dietitian,...
View ArticleCotton and jelly sandwich?
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service approved the growing of a new kind of cotton plant that's been genetically modified to be edible. The toxic chemical...
View ArticlePeanut butter and jelly sandwiches accepted as payment for parking citations
If you have any unpaid parking fines at the University of Alaska Anchorage campus, and you have a loaf of bread and some peanut butter and jelly, you can now reduce or cover the cost of your tickets by...
View ArticleKenya hit by worst locust plague in 70 years
A massive locust infestation has migrated from Somalia and Ethiopia into Kenya, reports AP News. The insects are devouring crops in a country already afflicted by widespread hunger. The United Nations...
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The risk of going hungry in the U.S. is rising
Writing in The Week, Ryan Cooper says, "The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has collected data for the week ending July 21, before super-unemployment expired, and found that 12 percent of...
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Keep restaurants in business, support farmers, and feed those economically...
Brattleboro, Vermont has initiated an innovative project leveraging CARES Act funding to keep local restaurants in business, while at the same time supporting local farmers and feeding members of the...
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Collectives and non-profits feed the hungry. Some people want to make it...
Why do some people in Orlando, Florida, want to outlaw feeding people who are hungry? Why do some people in Orlando, Florida, want to target people who provide people who are hungry for criminal...
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