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Nov 25 2020
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College students launch project to reduce food waste and feed hungry families
Many can still vividly recall images of crops rotting in the field and milk being dumped when schools and restaurants were forced to close in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. Some college students want to make sure we never see that again.
Vernie Jackson was not in line at a food pantry last Thanksgiving — but he's since fallen on hard times.
"I lost people in the
CBS News (Online)Nov 17 2013
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See How Food Stamp Cuts Are Hitting Across The U.S.
Oregon as a local food movement hub? That's obvious. Less so is the fact that one in five state residents rely on food stamps. That's one of the surprising facts that stand out in an interactive map that tracks how cuts that went into effect on Nov. 1 are affecting the country.
NPR (Online News)Dec 08 2020
Analysis
Will Biden Pick a USDA Secretary Who Sees Our Food Crises Clearly?
The next secretary of the US Department of Agriculture will confront two of the most dire problems facing the nation: spiking levels of hunger brought on by the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout, and the damage that ever-increasing climate chaos visits upon our most productive farming regions.
The New York Times will tell you a different story. According to a recent article
Mother JonesDec 05 2013
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Fast-Food Protests Return Amid Push For Wage Hikes
Fast-food workers and labor organizers marched, waved signs and chanted in cities across the country on Thursday in a push for higher wages.
Organizers say employees planned to forgo work in 100 cities, with rallies set for another 100 cities. But by late afternoon, it was unclear what the actual turnout was or how many of the participants were workers. At targeted restaurants, the
NPR (Online News)Nov 20 2020
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As Stimulus Runs Out, 56% of US Household Are Worried About Affording Food
More than half of households in the United States are not “very confident” that they can afford to put food on the table as the holidays approach, according to federal Census data. Meanwhile, what remains of federal pandemic relief programs is set to expire before the end of year.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has so far refused to take up a $2.2 trillion economic relief
TruthOutFeb 10 2024
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CY Middle School celebrates Chinese New Year
CASPER, Wyo. — Area students rang in the Lunar New Year in style Saturday afternoon at CY Middle School, celebrating Chinese culture, history, food and more. Students from CY Middle School and Paradise Valley Elementary School took part, and delighted attendees with musical and dramatic performances in Chinese. Students also shared projects they’d spent weeks working on. “This year, the theme
Oil City NewsFeb 13 2024
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Prices rose more than expected in January as inflation won’t go away
Inflation rose more than expected in January as stubbornly high shelter prices weighed on consumers, the Labor Department reported Tuesday.
The consumer price index, a broad-based measure of the prices shoppers face for goods and services across the economy, increased 0.3% for the month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. On a 12-month basis, that came out to 3.1%, down from 3.4%
CNBCMar 24 2022
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Russia’s Ukraine war boosts food prices in U.S., vexing farmers about planting more
Higher wheat prices should make farmers like Nicole Berg, the owner of a 21,000 acre farm in Washington state, happy. But the costs of fuel and fertilizer are eating into her profits.
“The issue we’re having right now is that input costs are going up even more than the price of wheat,” Berg told CNBC in a recent interview.
Berg, like many farmers, is also constrained by the
CNBCJul 11 2022
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Food insecurity and hunger afflicted 2.3 billion people in 2021, and the war will add more, the U.N. says.
Global hunger and the chronic inability to access food skyrocketed in 2021, with 2.3 billion people facing moderate or severe food insecurity around the world, the United Nations said in a report released Wednesday.
“The world is moving backward in its efforts to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms,” the report said, in part as a result of the war in Ukraine,
New York Times (News)Jan 25 2024
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These chefs and restaurants from Ohio and Michigan are semifinalists for national awards
The James Beard Awards annually honor outstanding chefs and restaurants around the country in a variety of categories. Multiple chefs and businesses from Michigan and Ohio are semifinalists for the 2024 James Beard Awards, which recognize outstanding places and people for their contributions to the U.S. culinary industry. According to a press release from the James Beard Foundation, the awards
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