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  • McDonald's Tells Employee to Apply for Welfare
    October 24, 2013
    | Joshua Holland
    A perfect example of a private company using the social safety net to increase their bottom line.
  • 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.
  • 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.”
  • What Real Food Policy Dialogue Looks Like
    July 29, 2013
    | Greg Kaufmann
    In contrast to rubbish that passes for conversation about hunger in Congress, NYC's recent Forum on the Future of Food offered substantive food for thought.
  • Responses to 'Congressional Hunger Games'
    July 24, 2013
    | Greg Kaufmann
    Greg Kaufmann collects advice from anti-hunger advocates on how to respond to congressional politicking on food assistance.


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