Food Insecure

Struggling Mom Who Gardened To Feed Family Now Sends Free Seeds To Hungry

News4Jax.com | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Texas, Hunger, Fighting Hunger, Holly Hirschberg, Gardening, dinnergarden.org, American Hunger, Food Insecure, Impact News

Do you know where your next meal is coming from? Many Americans don't. The latest statistics show in 2010 more than 17 million households were food...

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How 1 State Is Scaling Back Both Hunger And Obesity

Tamara Sandberg | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Kentucky Association of Food Banks, Michelle Obama, Hunger, House Agriculture Committee, Food Stamps, Let's Move Campaign, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Kentucky, Child Hunger, Obesity, Food Insecure, Childhood Obesity, Impact News
Tamara Sandberg

Protecting our children from obesity requires more than increased physical activity and access to healthy food at school. It also compels us to do all we can to be sure they aren't coming home to poorly stocked kitchen cabinets. Childhood obesity and hunger are related and real problems -- and both are also really solvable.

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Developing a System of Accountability

Jeremy Everett | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Poverty America, Americans Hungry, Hunger Poverty, Hunger, Hunger America, America Hunger, Food-Insecure-Household, Food Insecure, Impact News
Jeremy Everett

We as a nation cannot agree upon who is at fault for poverty and whose responsibility it is to address it. We are bent on it being one type of problem and one sector's responsibility.

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Laura Rowley

One In Seven Seniors Faces Threat Of Hunger: Report

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Rowley | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Senior Hunger Report Card, Threat of Hunger, Meals on Wheels, Risk of Hunger, Bv-Life, Enid Borden, Food Insecurity, Risk of Hunger Among Seniors, Food Insecure, Threat of Hunger Among Seniors, Huff/Post50 News

One in seven seniors in America -- some 8.3 million people -- faced the threat of hunger in 2010, a 78 percent spike since 2001, according to a study ...

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Recession Put Middle-Aged Americans At Greater Risk For Hunger: Study

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Hunger, Middle Age, Unemployment, Food Secure, Food Stamps, Third World America, Great Recession, Hunger in America, Food Insecurity, Aarp, Food Insecure, Recession, Food Security, Video, Business News

If further proof were needed of the far-reaching harm caused by the Great Recession, it would seem to have arrived in the form of a study from the Uni...

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Protecting the Programs That Protect the Hungry

Vicki B. Escarra | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: State of the Union, Obama, Hunger, Feeding America, Food-Insecure, Snap, Wic, Federal Programs, Spending Cuts, Impact News
Vicki B. Escarra

As I listened, I thought about how millions of families across the nation make the same difficult choice every day to stretch their own budgets.

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Potatoes, Not Just Pistons, Taking Root in Detroit

Sarah Newman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Potatoes, Sustainable Food, Urban Gardening, Agriculture, Urban Roots, Urban Agriculture, Food Insecure, Detroit, Food Deserts, Green News
Sarah Newman

Although the idea of urban farming might be unknown to many people, or just assumed to be commonplace in coastal areas such as San Francisco and Brooklyn, Detroit is becoming more about potatoes than pistons.

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Fight Childhood Obesity By Supporting Public School Nutrition Reform

Sarah Newman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Public Schools, Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, Michelle Obama, President Obama, Tom Vilsack, Washington, Agriculture, Obama, Congress, Obesity, Junk Food, Food Insecure, Recession, California, Child Nutrition Reauthorization, Usda, Takepart, Soda, Feeding America, School Lunches, Health, Healthy Living News
Sarah Newman

Kids have gotten bigger recently. In fact, according to the CDC, obesity rates have tripled in the past 30 years with nearly 20 percent of children aged 6-11 and 18 percent for those aged 12-19.

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