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  • Morning Reads: Election-Rigging and Fat-Shaming Trick or Treaters
    October 31, 2013
    A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ...
  • No Time to Wait on a Movement
    October 29, 2013
    | Greg Kaufmann
    Today, 48 million people -- including 21 million children -- will see their food stamp benefits reduced.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Chairman Ryan and the Real World
    August 2, 2013
    | Greg Kaufmann
    Congressman Jim McDermott described Ryan's hearing on poverty perfectly when he said: “This hearing is surreal… You are not living in the real world.”
  • 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.
  • Paul Ryan's War on Poverty
    July 30, 2013
    | Greg Kaufmann
    House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan has the opportunity to listen to and learn from an advocate on the front lines of the poverty battle tomorrow. Will he take it?


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