According to a recent report from the USDA, an increasing share of individuals who receive benefits through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program, also known as food stamps, live in households where at least one person is working.
Author: WHES Team
Could Meals On Wheels Really Lose Funding? Yes, But It’s Hard To Say How Much
Meals on Wheels, you see, isn’t a federal program. It’s a network of thousands of independently run groups that receive varying amounts of government aid – or none at all. Together, they deliver hot meals to 2.4 million seniors each year. Some of these programs get federal funding, but how that will be affected is still unclear.
Fighting Famine in War-Torn South Sudan
In South Sudan, 5M people don’t know where their next meal is coming from and, of them, 100,000 are starving and face death. If not for humanitarian efforts, millions could die.
Somalia: ‘People are dying of hunger…there’s no water’
Over six million people are in need of food assistance — more than half the country’s population — according to recent figures from the UN. But even inside the camps, food is scarce.
Drought brings savage halt to nomadic way of life in Somalia – in pictures
Yemen at ‘point of no return’ as conflict leaves almost 7 million close to famine
New figures released by UN indicate 17 million people facing severe food insecurity in Yemen. Full Report: http://www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ipcinfo/docs/IPC_Yemen_AcuteFI_Situation_March-July2017_ENversion.pdf
Why The Famine In South Sudan Keeps Getting Worse
At the same time that people are starving, fighting has turned parts of the country into no-go zones for relief agencies.
Last time I got food, armed men took everything’: famine in South Sudan
For some time now, aid has been the only way for people to survive here. But over the past year, even that lifeline has almost dried up. Across all of South Sudan, 4.9 million people are severely food insecure.
Famine ‘largest humanitarian crisis in history of UN’
The world faces the largest humanitarian crisis since the United Nations was founded in 1945 with more than 20 million people in four countries at risk of starvation and famine, the UN humanitarian chief has said
UN agencies in Rome step up on gender equality to end hunger and poverty
Leaders from the three UN Rome-based agencies, FAO, IFAD, and WFP, today Marked International Women’s Day by reinforcing their commitments to step up efforts to invest in the capacities of rural women as key agents of change in building a world without hunger. IFAD President Kanayo F. Nwanze said, “We need to face the fact that we will never overcome poverty and hunger without empowering rural women.”
