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Amanda Terkel

The Reality Behind Rhetoric About Food Stamps

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Poverty, Food Stamps, Food Banks, Second Harvest, US Poverty, Mitt Romney, Florida Primary, Video, Unemployed, Second Harvest Food Bank, Mitt Romney 2012, Food Insecurity, Second Harvest North Florida, Florida, Food Bank, Snap, Poverty in America, Politics News

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Rhetoric about jobs is everywhere during this campaign season. To emphasize how much they want to create jobs and how valuable s...

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No Turkey for Thanksgiving This year?

Marie Clarke Brill | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Thanksgiving, Congress, Poverty, Food Security, Holidays, Second Harvest Food Bank, Holiday Season, Turkey, Food Insecurity, Green News
Marie Clarke Brill

In these hard economic times, the combination of unemployment and high food prices means many American families are struggling to put food on the table.

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Hunger Doesn't Take A Vacation

Rev. Larry Hollon | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Underemployment, Hunger, Food Banks, Second Harvest Food Bank, Hunger in America, Poverty in America, Second Harvest Backpack Program, Galatians 6:2, Childhood Hunger, Middle Tennessee Second Harvest, Religion News
Rev. Larry Hollon

One in five children in my state of Tennessee is at risk of hunger. But this is not just a Tennessee crisis. Nationally, one in four children are at risk of going to bed hungry.

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Dispensary Offers Free Pot For Food Donations

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Donations, Second Harvest Food Bank, Marijuana, Marijuana Dispensaries, Pot, San Francisco Marijuana Dispensaries, Weed, Granny Purps Dispensary, Los Angeles News

SOQUEL, Calif. — A California medical marijuana dispensary has raked in food donations with a unique offer: free pot. The Granny Purps dispensary...

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Struggling With Unemployment, Gloomy Christmas For Gulf Oil Spill Victims

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf Oil Spill, Gulf Fishermen, BP Oil Spill, Second Harvest Food Bank, US Poverty, Unemployment, Gulf Families, Gulf Unemployment, Jennifer Reddick, Coastal Heritage Society of Louisiana, Impact News

PORT SULPHUR, La. — Even before the Gulf oil spill, Jennifer Reddick was just getting by, living paycheck to paycheck as she tried to support si...

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93 Dollar Club: Random Act Of Kindness Sparks $100,000 In Donations To Food Bank

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 93 Dollar Club, Second Harvest Food Bank, Food Banks, Trader Joes, Hunger in America, Random Acts of Kindness, Jenni Ware, Facebook, Second Harvest Food Bank San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties, Carolee Hazard, Video, Impact News

When Jenni Ware found herself unable to locate her wallet as she stood in front of the cash register at her neighborhood Trader Joe's market, a strang...

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Phil Hirsch, Ohio Man, Wins Supermarket Shopping Spree And Donates To Food Bank

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hunger, Youngstown State University, Second Harvest Food Bank, Food Banks, Hunger in America, Ohio, United Way, Feeding America, Impact News

After making a donation to Youngstown State University's annual United Way fundraiser, Phil Hirsch, an administrator at the university, won a supermar...

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BP Donates $1 Million To Help Fishermen Affected By Gulf Oil Spill

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Second Harvest Food Bank, Bp, Gulf Fishermen, Catholic Charities, British Petroleum, Gulf Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup, Archdiocese of New Orleans, Gulf Oil Spill 2010, Fishermen, Impact News

In response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that has gushed millions of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, BP, the oil company responsib...

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When Times are Tough, the Tough Get Going -- and Volunteer

Linda Bergthold | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Holidays, Second Harvest Food Bank, Volunteering, Thanksgiving, Service Nation, Financial Crisis, Be the Change, Salvation Army, Barack Obama, Huffingtonpost, Healthy Living News
Linda Bergthold

I've been receiving a lot of mail from nonprofits in my community asking for money. And I'll donate what I can. But there are other things we can do that involve more than just money -- volunteer our time.

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