Photo: With financial aid declining, many college students can’t afford to eat, studies show, even though about 40 percent are also working. Nearly 1 in 4 college students are parents, which can add to their financial stress. [franckreporter/Getty Images]
by Michelle Andrews NPR July 31, 2018
As students enter college this fall, many will hunger for more than knowledge. Up to half of college students in recent published studies say they either are not getting enough to eat or are worried about it. This food insecurity is most prevalent at...
by Marielle Mohs kmov.com July 29, 2018
With 94 percent of children in the St. Louis area struggling with hunger, one of the highest rates in the country, volunteers from Generosity Feeds arrived to help lower that statistic. The group's goal was to pack 10,000 non-perishable meals in two ...
Photo: NAFMNP, a nonprofit unaffiliated with the government, has offered a temporary solution. [Andrew Burton/Getty Images]
by Hugh Merwin Grub Street July 23, 2018
A nonprofit group will use its own funds to temporarily extend a payment platform that allows SNAP recipients to buy food at thousands of farmers’ markets across the country. In a statement, the National Association of Farmers Market Nutrition Prog...
Photo: Volunteers from Cargill in Milwaukee prepare the soil for planting at the Hunger Task Force Farm in Franklin. [Chris Kohley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
by Crocker Stephenson Milwaukee Journal Sentinel July 20, 2018
In Milwaukee County Wisconsin, Hunger Task Force's farm is producing about a half-million pounds of fruits and vegetables each year. It is a crop worth nearly a million dollars, says Matt King, who is the Hunger Task Force’s farm director, and it i...