Childhood Hunger

Rep. Ryan's Hunger Games

Billy Shore | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: No Kid Hungry, Ryan Budget, Hunger, Poverty, Childhood Hunger, Paul Ryan, Paul Ryan Budget, Politics News
Billy Shore

It is fitting that House Budget Committee Chairman Ryan's budget and The Hunger Games were both released in the same week. Both envision a society in which children must truly fight for their very survival.

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The Food Network Broke My Heart

Martha Burk | Posted 01.27.2012

Read More: Minimum Wage, Hunger, Food Network, Poverty, Chopped, Lunch Lady, Food Insecurity, School Lunches, Childhood Hunger, Low Wage Work, Big Food, Food News
Martha Burk

The Food Network's popular reality series Chopped departed from its standard lineup of contestants this past week to feature an unusual group of chefs: lunch ladies.

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Too Many American Students Are Experiencing Hunger

Jesse Williams | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Hunger Classroom, Feeding America, Hunger Homes, School Hunger, Child Hunger, Childhood Hunger, Hunger in America, Impact News
Jesse Williams

During this prolonged economic downturn we need to raise awareness about the pervasiveness of child hunger in the USA now. We need to step up to help our struggling neighbors, family, and friends.

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Yoko Ono Launching Campaign To Fight Childhood Hunger, Poverty

AP | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Childhood Poverty, Yoko Ono Hunger Campaign, Hunger Issues, Childhood Hunger, Yoko Ono, Yoko Ono Poverty Campaign, Hunger, Impact News

NEW YORK -- Yoko Ono is launching a global campaign to raise money and awareness to help fight childhood hunger and poverty. The 78-year-old widow of...

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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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The National Conversation About New Priorities: Including Those Most Vulnerable

Billy Shore | Posted 08.26.2011

Read More: US Child Hunger, School Food Programs, US School Food, Childhood Hunger, Healthy School Lunches, Obama School Lunches, Politics News
Billy Shore

Notwithstanding the likelihood of many competing interests, there is one issue that politicians of all stripes should be able to agree upon because its redress is inextricably linked to solving so many other issues of import -- and that is the issue of childhood hunger.

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A Holistic Approach To Ending Childhood Hunger

Vicki B. Escarra | Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: Vicki B. Escarra, Feeding America, Child Hunger, Childhood Hunger, Greater Boston Food Bank, Hunger in the United States, America, Hunger in America, Impact News
Vicki B. Escarra

Among other things, the data and service records from this holistic model may be used to help us shape and inform critical public policy and funding debate around hunger and poverty issues.

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How Two Chefs Are Changing The Industrial Food System

Chris Elam | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Usda, Salad Bars, Chefs, Timothy Cipriano, Childhood Obesity, Let's Move, New Haven, Dave Willard, Sodexo, Childhood Hunger, Meatless Monday, Chef Ann Cooper, Food News
Chris Elam

If the ultimate goal is to make healthy food available to the greatest number of people, then where will the systemic changes that we need come from?

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Buy a Bottle of Wine, Help End Childhood Hunger

George Miliotes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wine, Napa, Childhood Hunger, Food News
George Miliotes

I am grateful to have the opportunity to draw on and share my knowledge and appreciation of wine while contributing to a good cause -- ending childhood hunger in America.

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Chicago Schools Serve Up Breakfast, But Not Everyone's Happy

Jacqueline Edelberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: School Lunches, Free Breakfast, Greg Christian, Mary Richardson-Lowry, Childhood Hunger, Chartwells Thompson, Childhood Obesity, Chicago Public Schools, Jason Weedon, Nettelhorst, Let's Move, Education Reform, Gourmet Gorilla, Healthy Schools Campaign, Children's Health, Alice Waters, Louise Esaian, Blaine Elementary, Education News
Jacqueline Edelberg

The food mega-giant Chartwells Thompson just won a ginormous contract from the federal government contract to provide a free breakfast to every single Chicago Public School student.

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HuffPost's Greatest Person Of The Day: Billy Shore, Fighting To End Childhood Hunger

The Huffington Post | Dominique Fenton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hunger, Share Our Strength, Health, Hunger in America, Billy-Shore, Greatest Person of the Day, Food, Childhood Hunger, Video, Impact News

Today we're talking to Billy Shore, who started Share Our Strength in 1984 to combat hunger in America. The organization has since raised $300 million...

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Jeff Bridges Promotes 'No Kid Hungry' Campaign (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges appeared Thursday on CBS's Washington Unplugged to talk about childhood hunger in the United States, which he descri...

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Dinner For The District's Kids

Here's Life Inner City | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Homeless, Washington DC, Poverty, Homelessness, Dine-in Challenge, Food Research Action Center, After School Programs, Childhood Hunger, Impact News
Here's Life Inner City

For many DC children, the meals they receive at school are the only food they get on any given day.

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Faced With High Student Hunger, DC Schools Start Serving Dinner

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: School Dinners, Childhood Poverty, DC Public Schools, Washington Dc Schools, School-Meals, US Poverty, Hunger in America, Childhood Hunger, Education News

In one of the poorest regions in the country, Washington DC public schools are struggling to cope with high spikes in poverty in recent years. Accord...

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Help Our Children Play

Irene Rosenfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Parks and Obesity, Parks, Playgrounds, Childhood Obesity, Children Playgrounds, Obesity, Childhood Hunger, Food Deserts, Impact News
Irene Rosenfeld

Research indicates that children who live near a park are less likely to be overweight than kids without a park nearby. Ensuring our kids have safe places to play can be a simple part of a solution to our crisis of obesity.

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Yes, Rush Limbaugh, Children Go Hungry in America

Mark Muller | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mark Muller

Several years ago, after our country became sharply divided over the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Patriot Act and just about every other policy d...

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A Seder Lesson: Let All Who Are Hungry Come And Eat

Rabbi Steve Gutow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion, Social Justice, Jews and Social Justice, Hunger, Feeding the Hungry, Passover Seder, Child Nutrition Act, Judaism and Social Justice, Childhood Nutrition, Child Nutrition, Child Hunger, Childhood Hunger, Passover, Religion News
Rabbi Steve Gutow

As American Jews ate what for many was a plentiful meal, we listened to the traditional four questions and pondered a new one: why, in a country as wealthy and as bountiful as the United States, are there still children who are hungry?

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Serving Healthy Thanksgiving Plates, Not Just Full Ones

Mark Shriver | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Childhood-Hunger, Hunger, Obesity, Thanksgiving, Childhood Obesity, Thanksgiving Commentary, Healthy Living News
Mark Shriver

Are America's children suffering from too much food or too little? They answer is: both. Children in low-income families are simply getting too little of the right foods and too much of the wrong foods.

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Ending Childhood Hunger by 2015

James D. Weill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Malnutrition, Hunger, Childhood Hunger, Children, Children's Health, World Hunger, Home News
James D. Weill

More than 12 million children -- nearly 17 percent of all children in the country -- live in homes that are struggling with hunger, hindering them from growing, learning and succeeding in school.

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