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According to Golden Harvest, nearly 1 in 2 children in Hancock County don't have consistent access to food, which now tops the United States for child hunger.
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Vance hopping mad over judge's order protecting 16 million hungry children
J.D. Vance expressed deep bewilderment upon learning that federal judges can tell presidents what to do, especially when those presidents want to Make America Great Again by starving hungry people. As reported in The Hill,
There is no “government efficiency” to be found in reversing decades of investments that have yielded such strong returns for America’s families. Food assistance has meant better students, higher test scores, healthier kids and stronger communities. Government efficiency dictates that we expand such programs, not curtail them.
As the federal government reimagines public health through the Make America Healthy Again initiative, a troubling contradiction is emerging: While the rhetoric supports better nutrition, the reality includes deep budget cuts that threaten the very programs ...
The horror of starvation in Gaza makes it urgent to support UNICEF, the U.N. World Food Program, Save the Children and other charities that feed severely malnourished kids. Time is running out for them as malnutrition can claim lives quickly. “As of ...
As colleges reopen, a great service project for students would be to advocate for feeding hungry children displaced by war. Think of the children from Sudan, a country devastated by civil war and famine. Sudanese kids and their families have fled to ...
There are few things more devastating to a parent than to see a child go hungry. And indeed, it should shock the conscience of everyone in this country of abundance
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Texans shouldn’t go hungry because politicians failed
Beyond the threats to SNAP funding from the government shutdown, cuts to food aid show how government neglect — from Austin to Washington — is deepening hunger in Texas, the Editorial Board writes.
The federal government has been shut down for 28 days and counting. That’s 28 days too long and already the second-longest federal shutdown ever. Saturday will be another grim milestone. That is the day about 42 million Americans will lose federal food assistance.
Sadly, today the Trump administration has scaled back foreign aid, which undermines humanitarian and peace efforts
Trump’s shutdown is pushing nonprofits to the brink as families face shrinking food aid. Catholic Charities USA CEO Kerry Alys Robinson and Share our Strength CEO Anne Filipic join The Weeknight to share the challenges they’re facing and what is at stake for millions of Americans.