Discontinuing the expanded Child Tax Credit has plunged millions of families back into poverty and its anxieties.
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Posted inCoronavirus
In Shanghai, the Essence of Authority Was Silence
The lockdown crisis in China’s richest city recalls decades of past food shortages and stirred a restless citizenry to speak out about a broken social contract.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Attorneys Try to Gobble Up Billions From Starving Afghans
Famine grips the country, but ruthless lawyers are smelling profit.
Posted inWorking in America
Why Most Kroger Workers Are Food Insecure
And what the company can do about it
Posted inEconomic Policy
A Boost in Food Stamps, but Hunger Remains
The Biden administration has secured the biggest expansion of benefits in the history of the food stamp program. It’s still not enough.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Are Summer Food Benefits Here to Stay?
The Biden administration expanded summer meals for low-income kids. Democrats want to make the program permanent, but most states haven’t started implementing it.
Posted inEducation in America
On Summer Vacation and Hungry
The school lunch program has gone a long way to reduce childhood hunger across the country. What happens during the summer?
Posted inCoronavirus
A South Carolina Food Bank Steps In
The COVID-19 crisis puts rural African Americans at greatest risk for hunger.
Posted inCoronavirus
Mutual Aid, for and by Undocumented Immigrants
Immigrant advocacy groups are creating mutual aid funds to support the undocumented community, who are otherwise locked out of federal benefit programs.
Posted inCoronavirus
Unsanitized: Feeding People Because They Are Hungry
And that’s a rebellion, interestingly enough. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for May 10, 2020.
