“Effective federal public policies over the previous few years were spectacularly successful in stemming U.S. hunger, but as many of those policies have been reversed, hunger has again soared,” said one expert. Highlighting the end of a yearslong trend of declining hunger in the United States due largely to federal policies like the expanded Child […]
“It’s already hard enough for parents to make ends meet and now they’re being put at the center of these dangerous political games,” said one advocate. As Republican lawmakers on Friday walked away from negotiations over raising the United States’ arbitrary debt limit, claiming the Biden administration has been “unreasonable” in its refusal to accept steep spending […]
“In the richest country in the history of the world, every child that does not have enough to eat is a policy failure and a moral outrage,” said Rep. Jim McGovern, a co-sponsor of the Universal School Meals Program Act. Demanding an end to the “international embarrassment” of childhood hunger the the world’s wealthiest country, […]
Ten Alaskans are suing the state, saying it failed to provide food stamps within the time frames required by federal law. The complaint was filed Friday in Superior Court in Anchorage against Alaska Health Commissioner Heidi Hedberg. The lawsuit said that in her role as commissioner of a department that failed to provide needed services, Hedberg “has […]