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Hunger games: Congress targets food assistance for the most vulnerable, despite the nation’s growing food insecurity problem
Posted by The Pump Handle on July 13, 2012 Hunger in America can be hard to see. It doesn’t look like the image of hunger we usually see on our TVs: the wrenching impoverishment and emaciation. Talking about American hunger is hard because, well, there’s food all around us.
Dissing people in U.S. who need food assistance
Posted by Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH of George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services on January 17, 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich likes to pump himself up by picking on other people. Several weeks back his target was “children in the poorest neighborhoods.” Now it’s people who receive food assistance. Others have checked his claims about President Obama being the “food stamp President,” but Gingrich also suggested that if you are on…
Mark Bittman & Others Fasting to Preserve Budget for Food Assistance
Posted by Liz Borkowski on March 31, 2011 New York Times columnist Mark Bittman (famous for his writing on food) reported on Tuesday that he was joining more than 4,000 others who’ve been fasting to call attention to House legislation’s proposed cuts to programs for the poor and hungry. He explains: [The poor] are — once again — under attack, this time in…