United States

SNAP benefit increase takes effect

by USDA Food and Nutrition Service Morning Ag Clips October 13, 2020

The previously announced 5.3% cost of living increase to the maximum benefit amounts for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) took effect Oct. 1st, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reminded. As a result, SNAP households will ...

Food Insecurity In The U.S. By The Numbers

by Christianna Silva NPR September 29, 2020

With COVID-19 continuing to spread, and millions of Americans still out of work, one of the nation's most urgent problems has only grown worse: hunger....

Food insecurity, demand on Syracuse University pantries rise due to pandemic’s financial tolls

by Maggie Hicks The Daily Orange September 8, 2020

Now that in-person instruction has resumed at Syracuse University, Syeisha Byrd expects the number of students who access on-campus food pantries to increase. The South Campus food pantry served 158 students in April, a spike that decreased to 35 ...

Hunger in America; A Photographic Journey through America

by Brenda Ann Kenneally, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc and Tim Arango, Photos by Amy Kellner and Rory Walsh New York Times Magazine September 3, 2020

The New York Times Magazine has put together a photographic journey visiting families affected by hunger during this Coronavirus Pandemic....

Building a Black Food Sovereignty Movement in Baltimore

by Katie Howell Food Tank August 25, 2020

Based in Baltimore, Maryland, the Black Yield Institute is a Pan-African power institution working toward Black land and food sovereignty. With self-determination as a guiding principle, Black Yield Institute works to bring together Black institution...

A Biblical Surge of Miscommunication

by August 11, 2020

On Language: In the popular media, including otherwise-intelligent talking heads and world leaders have invented new pretentious, uses for words that have little actual meaning.  Chief among these are:  "surge," "spike", "epicenter" and...

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