Food insecurity

Kids eating school lunch

Thanks to These Activists, in New Mexico Schools There Is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch Thanks to These Activists, in New Mexico Schools There Is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch

Universal free school meals are a popular and effective way to help kids remain engaged in learning and boost local agriculture. Why does it take such a fight to make them policy?...

Jun 26, 2024 / Nora De La Cour

A woman standing with a shopping cart between tall aisles of a grocery store.

The Freedom Caucus Is Coming for SNAP The Freedom Caucus Is Coming for SNAP

Food stamps have a problematic place in progressive views of the social welfare safety net. But the program works, and it needs our support.

Jan 4, 2024 / Christopher Bosso

Volunteers fill boxes at a food distribution center.

Everyone Has the Right to Food Everyone Has the Right to Food

For a country that projects itself as the richest in the world, hunger remains hidden by design.

Mar 15, 2023 / Beverly Gologorsky

Fighting Poverty

In the Richest Country in the World, Precarity Is the Norm In the Richest Country in the World, Precarity Is the Norm

Policy-makers in Washington and so many states continue to legislate as if inequality weren’t an emergency for tens, if not hundreds, of millions of us.

Nov 2, 2022 / Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis

A mushroom cloud in black and white

How Worldwide Famine Would Follow Even a “Limited” Nuclear War How Worldwide Famine Would Follow Even a “Limited” Nuclear War

A landmark study demands attention.

Aug 22, 2022 / Matt Bivens

Food giveaway at Valley Park Church - during the Coronavirus pandemic

California’s Undocumented Children Are Going Hungry California’s Undocumented Children Are Going Hungry

A report shows that 45 percent of the state’s undocumented residents are facing food insecurity, mostly children.

May 13, 2022 / Sasha Abramsky

Farm equipment seen from above a harvested field.

You Can’t Isolate the Food Crisis From the Climate Crisis You Can’t Isolate the Food Crisis From the Climate Crisis

Interrupted food exports from Russia and Ukraine could have disastrous consequences for regions that are already food insecure due in part to climate change.

Apr 1, 2022 / Andrew McCormick

To Restore American Leadership, the Biden Administration Should Focus on Global Hunger

To Restore American Leadership, the Biden Administration Should Focus on Global Hunger To Restore American Leadership, the Biden Administration Should Focus on Global Hunger

Without intervention, world hunger will reach “biblical proportions” in 2021.

Dec 25, 2020 / Rep. Jim McGovern

A woman with her children wearing masks, reaches out to pick up a bag of groceries.

We’re Now Facing Both a Public Health and a Poverty Catastrophe We’re Now Facing Both a Public Health and a Poverty Catastrophe

Trump’s malevolent mismanagement of the Covid-19 crisis has been compounded by ineptitude at the state level.

Dec 8, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky

Trump Deploys the Strongman’s Playbook

Trump Deploys the Strongman’s Playbook Trump Deploys the Strongman’s Playbook

There seems to be no limit to the damage he’s willing to inflict on the country’s democratic structures in his efforts to save his chances for reelection.

Oct 13, 2020 / Sasha Abramsky

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