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  • SNAP Cuts Mean Millions Could Go Hungry
    November 8, 2013
    | John Light
    Congressional cuts to the food stamp program went into effect this week, making it much harder for struggling families to make ends meet.
  • Morning Reads: Planet-Killing Asteroids and Obamacare Sensationalism
    October 29, 2013
    A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ...
  • As Our Safety Nets Get Slashed, More People Fall into Deep Poverty
    October 24, 2013
    | Stephanie Mencimer
    Since 1996, the number of families with children living in extreme poverty — that is, on $2 a day or less — has gone up nearly 130 percent.
  • Video Report: An Oasis in a Food Desert
    October 24, 2013 | Moyers & Company
    Take a look inside America’s first nonprofit grocery store, which is bringing fresh food to a struggling community in Pennsylvania.
  • Six Myths About Food Stamps
    October 8, 2013
    | Dave Johnson
    The right-wing echo chamber has vilified food stamp users with a variety of absurd lies and myths. As a result, people will go hungry.
  • Some Food Stamp Critics Have Their Own Safety Net
    September 20, 2013
    | Zaid Jilani
    Many of the politicians who rail against SNAP in Congress bring home huge sums of federal assistance to their supporters.
  • Americans Still Struggling to Feed Their Families
    September 4, 2013
    | Dr. Mariana Chilton
    A new USDA report released today says that millions of Americans live in food-insecure households. Child hunger expert Dr. Mariana Chilton explains why programs like SNAP and WIC need to be expanded.
  • Think Tank Says Poor Americans Have It Too Good
    August 21, 2013
    | Joshua Holland
    A new report released by the Cato Institute claims that the "current welfare system provides such a high level of benefits that it acts as a disincen­tive for work.”
  • The True Experts on Poverty
    August 9, 2013
    | Greg Kaufmann
    Paul Ryan declined to invite struggling mother Tianna Gaines-Turner to speak before his poverty hearing, but here's what she would have said.
  • The Faces of America’s Hungry
    July 31, 2013 | Moyers & Company
    Kristi Jacobson and Mariana Chilton reveal tragic truths about hunger and food insecurity in America.


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