Food Security
When we're hungry, we expect to eat. In fact, we expect to be able to eat whatever we want. Eating when we are hungry -- or, as many of us like to say, when we are "starving" -- is easily taken for granted.
When we're hungry, we expect to eat. In fact, we expect to be able to eat whatever we want. Eating when we are hungry -- or, as many of us like to say, when we are "starving" -- is easily taken for granted.
Matthew Bode | Posted 04.18.2012
What do you do with a clergy person at a development meeting? Or when planning new street art projects? Or building a board for a new non-profit?
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 04.04.2012
Anyone who thinks welfare recipients do nothing but sit around and cash their checks isn't familiar with the schedules of Tiffany and many others like her.
www.telegram.com | Posted 01.08.2012
As the economy continues to falter and the number of families seeking help at local food pantries increases, there is one possible solution gaining mo...
West Des Moines, IA Patch | Beth Dalbey | Posted 12.20.2011
If hunger is an invisible problem in Iowa, blame it on people like Kim Olsem, a mother and a fighter, whose two jobs -- one working with the elderly, ...
www.slate.com | Posted 12.08.2011
'Tis the season for food drives. It's a holiday tradition as storied as Christmas trees, awkward conversations with the in-laws, and embarrassing drun...
urbandale.patch.com | Posted 01.31.2012
"It's just neighbors helping neighbors. That's our philosophy."...
niles.patch.com | Posted 01.28.2012
"It will be off the charts. ... I can't even imagine what it will be."...
Anthony Papa | Posted 01.28.2012
This holiday season there will be tens of thousands that will be hungry. Maybe with the help of concerned New Yorkers the problem can be alleviated.
Northbrook Patch | Jennifer Fisher | Posted 11.22.2011
Just after dawn on Saturday morning, a dozen volunteers gathered at a vacant lot in Glenview wearing fleece jackets, winter hats and work gloves. At 7...
AP | DINESH RAMDE | Posted 01.21.2012
MILWAUKEE — The season of giving has started, with schools, churches and businesses kicking off food drives that have become annual holiday trad...
Lisa M. Dietlin | Posted 01.16.2012
During this time of year, many local grocery stores as well as chains, offer the opportunity for shoppers to purchase a bag of food, a meal or to drop off a food item in a "food barrel".
Kate Maehr | Posted 09.05.2011
If the economy is showing tepid signs of recovery, we're seeing no indication at the hundreds of food pantries and shelters we serve daily. Record numbers of people are still in need of emergency food assistance -- many for the first time.
Susan Yager | Posted 09.04.2011
It's summer in the city, and that means weekends at the beach, walks in the park, and, for the third year in a row, the annual slaughter of Canada geese.
Posted 08.27.2011
Food banks around the country are implementing new policies to combat rising food costs and food shortages as more people are struggling to get enough...
Gordon Campbell | Posted 07.20.2011
Cutting funding to the ESFP and other safety net initiatives that may be the difference between life and death closes the door on those who suffer from the plagues of unemployment, homelessness and hunger.
Gordon Campbell | Posted 05.25.2011
While many programs provide food to those in need, more comprehensive efforts with an emphasis on nutrition are required to establish healthy change in low income populations.
Nicole Skibola | Posted 05.25.2011
Innovative partnerships like Healthy Options, Healthy Meals may just be the missing link that can change the way that the poorest in our country eat.
Posted 05.25.2011
As unemployment benefits run out for millions of Americans, food banks across the nation are preparing to see more and more families and individuals t...
Vicki B. Escarra | Posted 05.25.2011
This argument against SNAP recipients using their benefits to purchase snack and other "unhealthy" foods is one I find disappointing. Food insecurity...
Posted 05.25.2011
Robyn Webb and Line Storgaard-Conley love food -- they love eating it, writing about it, tweeting it, and introducing new recipes to their friends. A...
Los Angeles Times | Kate Linthicum, | Posted 05.25.2011
On Monday night's dinner menu at the Union Rescue Mission: tacos made from elk, deer, sheep, wild pig, black bear and antelope....
Posted 05.25.2011
According to a report from CNN's "Broken Government" series, four out of every 10 visitors to a food pantry is under 18, and 50% of food pantry visito...
Posted 05.25.2011
Vicki Escarra, the president and CEO of Feeding America, calls hunger America's "dirty little secret." Mara Schiavocampo from NBC Nightly News discove...
AP | VALERIE BAUMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
ALBANY, N.Y. — Older Americans who were raised on stories of the Great Depression and acquired lifelong habits of thrift now find themselves crowdin...
Jesse Seaver | Posted 05.20.2012