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New report sheds sobering light on hunger on college campuses
A new report sheds a sobering light on hunger on college campuses. It finds that 35 percent of students at Temple University have gone hungry in the past year and 56 percent at the Community College of Philadelphia say they have found themselves going without a proper meal....
Advocates Are Building a Plan to Take on Military Hunger
Hunger is a real problem for military families. According to a recent report, about 15 percent of military and veteran family respondents face "food insecurity," the policy language used to describe people who worry about how they are going to feed their families or afford food....
Can This Chef Solve the Problem of School Lunch?
School lunch is a problem that, so far, no one has really solved. Is it possible to cook for hundreds or thousands of kids, with only about $1.25 per head (after labor and equipment costs), following guidelines that mandate exact proportions of protein, carbs, and sugar, and still make it taste good...
Cuomo: All NY public colleges will have food pantries by end of fall semester
Every State University of New York and City University of New York campus will have a food pantry or similar program by the end of the fall semester, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday....
Philadelphia Food Scraps to Become Gas to Power Trucks and Buses
Philadelphia’s food scraps may become fuel for buses and trucks, under a plan to build a $120 million anaerobic digester to produce natural gas....
Community in combat with food insecurity
Purdue University's ACE Campus Food Pantry allows anyone with a university ID to pick up food or other donated goods thanks to volunteers and the student farm....
How the Other Half Eats
City Lab explores how someone in Manhattan, New York City, can make $1.86 in daily SNAP benefits work in a county where the average low-income meal costs 113% of SNAP....
Military enlistees struggle with food insecurity
With three kids at home, including a newborn, managing a family budget is always a struggle for Theresa Washington and her husband. They're trying to survive on his Navy salary, which, some months, doesn't entirely cover everything....
Case Western Reserve University researchers trying to find solutions to Cleveland’s hunger problems
Case Western Reserve University researcher Darcy Freedman has received a nearly $1 million grant for a three-year long research project that aims to improve food systems in Cleveland, Ohio....
Fighting ‘Quiet Hunger’ in Every Philadelphia Zip Code
Food insecurity plagues more than 20 percent of people in Philadelphia and more than 1.6 million people across Pennsylvania. Broke in Philly reports on how people stretch their food budgets in one neighborhood....
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