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When a Farm Bill adds to the hungry

June 11, 2013 By

Poverty -- NPRBy Crystal Hayes       Published: June 10, 2013

It was always a good day when my mother came home with bags of groceries. Everybody was happy that day – until she had to start worrying about how to put food on the table again as a single mom working full-time. I can’t think of too many things more demoralizing for a parent than struggling to put food on the table, and now, thanks to 36 members of the House Committee on Agriculture, it will be harder than ever for vulnerable families to feed their children.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/06/10/2946095/when-a-farm-bill-adds-to-the-hungry.html#storylink=cpy

 

 

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Best Stimulus Package May Be Food Stamps

May 14, 2013 By

Farmers'-Market

Best Stimulus Package May Be Food Stamps

By Evan Soltas    Bloomberg May 6, 2013

Modern fiscal policy doesn’t work the way it did in the days of John Maynard Keynes and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. When Roosevelt increased federal spending from 1941 to 1945, the money went almost exclusively to direct purchases of goods and services. Today, fiscal stimulus happens mainly through taxes and transfers.   More at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-06/best-stimulus-package-may-be-food-stamps.html

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Feeding Frenzy Winners Determined

April 26, 2013 By

Legal Feeding Frenzy Logo - WEBFrom the N.C. Bar Association

The 2013 North Carolina Legal Feeding Frenzy is over. All that’s left now, in addition to distributing approximately 180,000 pounds which will provide the equivalent of 150,000 meals for our hungry neighbors across the state, is to recognize the winners.

Attorney General Roy Cooper did just that on Wednesday, April 24, when the coveted Attorney General’s Cup was presented to the overall champion during an awards ceremony at the N.C. Bar Center in Cary.

The Piedmont Natural Gas Legal Department of Charlotte claimed the overall championship and will receive the Attorney General’s Cup.

Winners in their respective categories, based on pounds of food donated per person, are:

  • Sole Practitioner (1-10 employees): Simonsen Law Firm, PC, Edenton
  • Small Firm (11-50 employees): District Court Judges of Wake County
  • Medium Firm (51-100 employees): Blanco Tackabery & Matamoros, P.A., Winston-Salem
  • Large Firm (more than 100 employees): Moore & Van Allen PLLC
  • Law School: Campbell University School of Law

The North Carolina Feeding Frenzy food drive was conducted from March 18-April 5 under the direction of the NCBA Young Lawyers Division and the N.C. Association of Food Banks.

Both organizations extend their appreciation to Attorney General Cooper for his support of this endeavor and to the hundreds of attorneys and law firm/organization employees who participated in this worthwhile cause.

For a complete list of participants go to:  http://ncfoodbanks.org/feeding-frenzy-participants/

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Vote to Support Your Local Food Bank’s Effort to Fight Child Hunger

April 24, 2013 By

Walmart is giving $3 million to 100 Feeding America network

food banks and their partner feeding agencies.

Logon to http://wm8.walmart.com/hunger to find your local food bank. The link will take to the Facebook votiFH_logo_textng site where you can enter and vote for your favorite food bank. The winning food banks will receive up to $45,000 to assist their ongoing efforts to fight child hunger in your community.

VOTE TODAY!!

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Food banks adopting healthy food standards

April 17, 2013 By

Food banks adopting healthy food standards    

Published: March 5, 2013 

By Andrea K. Walker — Baltimore Sun

Food banks across the country are adopting policies to make sure the people they serve get nutritious meals, according to Yale research.The groups that help feed the hungry are concerned about the rise in obesity and other illnesses, even among those people who cannot afford regular meals, the researchers at the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity found.The study was published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/03/05/2726944/food-banks-adopting-healthy-food.html#storylink=cpy

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LEGAL FEEDING FRENZY SET TO LAUNCH

February 28, 2013 By

 Legal Feeding Frenzy Logo - WEB

No one should go hungry, especially children.

That is why Attorney General Roy Cooper is joining forces with the Young Lawyers Division of the North Carolina Bar Association and the N.C. Association of Food Banks for the 2013 North Carolina Legal Feeding Frenzy.

 The food and fund drive competition between North Carolina law firms and organizations, which runs from March 18 to April 5, will assist North Carolina’s Feeding America Food Banks.

To register for the competition or to get more information go to www.nclegalfeedingfrenzy.com

 

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Congress: Do No Harm to SNAP

December 17, 2012 By

  Senior vice president, RWJF Health Group

 From the day I entered medicine, I was taught a simple rule: first, do no harm. As debate continues on a compromise for the next Farm Bill, the vast majority of which authorizes funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Congress should heed that advice. See more at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-s-marks/congress-do-no-harm-to-sn_b_2270786.html
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NJ mayor to live on food stamps

December 5, 2012 By
NJ mayor to live on food stamps starting Tuesday

Published – Nov 29 2012 06:48PM EST

KATIE ZEZIMA, Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 file photo, Newark Mayor Cory Booker, left, greets 13-year-old Blonbzell Taylor outside of Clinton Hill...(Associated Press)In this Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 file photo, Newark Mayor Cory Booker, left, greets 13-year-old Blonbzell Taylor outside of Clinton Hill Community Resource Center, where residents impacted by Superstorm Sandy received clothing donations in Newark, N.J.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Mayor Cory Booker said he will live on food stamps for a week starting Tuesday.

Booker told The Associated Press on Thursday that he will honor the challenge he made to a Twitter follower earlier this month and try living on the monetary equivalent of food stamps for at least a week.

“December 4 to 11. Seven days,” Booker said after the ribbon cutting for new loft apartments in Newark. He said he will be limited to $1.40 for each meal.

The North Carolina woman Booker challenged plans to accept, but she is not sure she will do it next week.

More at: http://www.rr.com/news/topic/article/rr/55255278/78299939/NJ_mayor_to_live_on_food_stamps_starting_Tuesday

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Potential waste turns into 465,000 meals

October 10, 2012 By

 MIKE HUGHLETT , Star Tribune

Call it the great corn rescue of 2012.

Big ripe ears of Minnesota sweet corn destined to become Green Giant niblets were instead going to be wasted. With a bountiful harvest this month, the cannery simply couldn’t process it all.

Then a new campaign — handiwork of local food relief groups and corporations — swung into action, quickly moving the corn from the fields to the food banks. “It’s beautiful corn, and it only lasts for a period of time,” said Ellie Lucas, chief campaign officer for Hunger-Free Minnesota.

The immediate result: 600,000 pounds of corn was transformed into 465,000 meals eaten by people in 10 states. The bigger picture: success for a pilot program that can, it is hoped, be replicated in the widespread battle against hunger and food waste.

Read more: http://www.startribune.com/local/170914761.html?page=all&prepage=1&c=y&refer=y

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Goldsboro rickshaws bring produce to poor neighborhoods

August 23, 2012 By

By Jay Price The News and Observer

GOLDSBORO — An idealistic partnership of academics, community leaders and local teens here is trying a novel solution to the national problem of poor nutrition in low-income neighborhoods: rickshaws.
Or rather, teenage food ambassadors on rickshaws, delivering farmers market produce to areas where places to buy fresh vegetables are scarce. Along the way, they spread information about healthy eating.
The Produce Ped’lers bike delivery program made its first delivery rides Wednesday. The riders loaded up vegetables, peaches and melons at a small farmers market in Herman Park in Goldsboro in the morning, then rolled into low-income neighborhoods. They stopped at homes and shops to deliver pre-ordered vegetables, talked to potential customers sitting on front porches and were themselves questioned by others who wondered aloud what the heck they were up to on those strange machines.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/08/21/2285497/goldsboro-rickshaws-bring-produce.html#storylink=cpy

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