Originally posted on the Vacaville Reporter: An astonishing one out of five children within our community is food-insecure. Child hunger doesn’t just affect children. It affects parents and our society as a whole. When children grow up with chronic hunger, we know that they experience significant physiological damage because their growing bodies don’t get the… Read More »
Originally posted by our friends at Feeding America San Diego: After three years of negotiations, the House of Representatives has approved the Farm Bill by a vote of 251-166, with 15 members not voting on Wednesday, January 29, 2014. The Senate is expected to begin procedural moves this week so that a Senate vote on… Read More »
Guest post from Congressman John Garamendi (D-Fairfield, CA): Today, Congressman John Garamendi, a rancher, pear farmer, and a Member of the House Agriculture Committee, voted against H.R. 3102, a partisan bill that would slash the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by nearly $40 billion, thereby denying food assistance to at least four million low-income Americans. The… Read More »
Next week, the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano is joining with Feeding America to encourage people to take the Hunger (SNAP) Challenge part of Hunger Action Month. For one week, particpants will live on just $4.50 a day, the average daily benefit per person provided by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP; formerly known… Read More »
Breaking News – The United States Department of Agriculture reported today that 14.5 percent of American households (15.6% in California) remain food insecure, meaning those households had difficulty at some time during the year in providing enough food for all their members. When it comes to food insecurity rates, any number is too high. That’s… Read More »
Original post by: Jessica Bartholow, Legislative Advocate, Western Center on Law and Poverty. Both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate will mark up the farm bill this week in their respective committees; the Senate on Tuesday, May 14, and the House on Wednesday, May 15. In the Senate, the agriculture committee chairwoman’s farm bill draft included a $4.1 billion… Read More »
This Friday, March 1, unless the Congress acts, automatic federal budget cuts under “sequestration” will go into effect. These cuts will impact a number of vital services critically-important to low-income people. Tomorrow, the Senate will vote on the American Family Economic Protection Act (pdf), the Senate Democrats’ bill to avoid sequestration. The proposal would prevent… Read More »
Today (November 28), Feeding America and other national partners are hosting a national call-in day to mobilize advocates across the country in opposition to cutting hunger-relief programs and protecting tax incentives to encourage food and fund donations as part of a deal on the Fiscal Cliff. Call in Details: As Congress debates how to address… Read More »
We urge you to register to vote in the election on Tuesday, November 6. If you live in California, it’s as easy as 1-2-3: 1. REGISTER Online at http://registertovote.ca.gov/ 2. GET INFORMED Find out what’s on your local ballot at www.smartvoter.org: type in your address to get your polling place and the list of races… Read More »
Guest post by Ambassador Laura Collins: “How was your day?” Do you ever get asked that question? Typically we answer with a simple “fine” or “great”, believing that it is just a courtesy question anyway. Well on June 5 when asked that question, I did say “great”, but I also felt it was important to… Read More »
From the St. Anthony Foundation blog written by Colleen Rivecca, Advocacy Coordinator: Thanks to everyone who joined in on the national call-in day to support SNAP in the Farm Bill. Here’s an update on the Farm Bill action from July 11. On Wednesday, July 11, the House Agriculture Committee voted to accept $16 billion in… Read More »
Guest post by FRAC (Food Research and Action Center): The Farm Bill proposal passed early this morning by the House Agriculture Committee slashes funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by $16 billion over ten years. It does this mainly by restricting states’ ability to coordinate SNAP with two other low-income programs. Specifically, the… Read More »
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