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Bread for the World Members visit Congress to advocate for child and maternal nutrition

by Hunger Notes June 13, 2016

Bread for the World members  visited Capitol Hill on June 7 to advocate for child and maternal nutrition programs in the United States and around the world. These “faith lobbyists” urged members of Congress to pass the Global Food Security Ac...

Congress digs in for a turf war on poverty

by Russell Berman The Atlantic June 3, 2016

Paul Ryan is pushing lawmakers to tackle an issue Republicans have long ignored, but all Democrats see are cuts—and a familiar foil....

Anastasia Flores Photo: David Bacon

Aging in the fields (part 1): No alternative but to keep working

by David Bacon The Reality Check June 3, 2016

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Cornell Nutrition Division Partners with World Health Organization

by By Susan Kelley Cornell Chronicle May 26, 2016

Susan Kelley, Cornell Chronicle, Feb 23, 2016 The World Health Organization (WHO) has named Cornell’s Division of Nutritional Sciences a collaborating center, establishing the division as a research and training partner i...

One of several shuttered factories in Huntington, Ind., a town of 17,000 where for generations such goods as baby shoes, ice cream cones, barbecue grills and dentures were made. Photo: Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post
One of several shuttered factories in Huntington, Ind., a town of 17,000 where for generations such goods as baby shoes, ice cream cones, barbecue grills and dentures were made. (Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post)
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