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- Jul
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Join us in helping hungry families right here in Livingston County. Food drives and food donations are helpful as well but please be sure to contact your local food pantry before beginning to collect food. Although all donations are good-intentioned, you might inadvertently be causing more logistical harm than good.
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- Jul
- 2018
The ALICE Report gives us a picture of our post-recession environment; highlights some of the
challenges associated with the high costs of housing, transportation, and childcare; and provides a
much more accurate measure of financial hardship in this changed economy.
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- Jun
- 2018
It’s finally summer — and while we’re excited for the lazy days ahead, for many kids summer is anything but carefree. For millions of kids, the end of school means the end of school meals that guarantee regular access to nutritious food. In Livingston County, we are fighting summer hunger through Summer Food Service Programs.
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- Jun
- 2018
Thank you to everyone who joined us at the 2018 Happy Healthy Summer Kickoff! Here are a few of our favorite pics from the event. Remember, we have a lot of great events happening throughout the summer. Thank you again to everyone who came out to celebrate with us at the 2018 Happy Healthy Summer […]
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- Apr
- 2018
Of course it is possible to eat well cheaply in America, but it takes resources and know-how that many low-income Americans don’t have. Kyera Reams of Osage, Iowa, puts an incredible amount of energy into feeding her family of six a healthy diet, with the help of staples from food banks and $650 in monthly SNAP benefits. A stay-at-home mom with a high school education, Reams has taught herself how to can fresh produce and forage for wild ginger and cranberries. When she learned that SNAP benefits could be used to buy vegetable plants, she dug two gardens in her yard. She has learned about wild mushrooms so she can safely pick ones that aren’t poisonous and has lobbied the local library to stock field guides to edible wild plants.
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- Mar
- 2018
As the face of hunger has changed, so has its address. The town of Spring, Texas, is where ranchland meets Houston’s sprawl, a suburb of curving streets and shade trees and privacy fences. The suburbs are the home of the American dream, but they are also a place where poverty is on the rise. As urban housing has gotten more expensive, the working poor have been pushed out. Today hunger in the suburbs is growing faster than in cities, having more than doubled since 2007.
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- Feb
- 2018
It can be tempting to ask families receiving food assistance, If you’re really hungry, then how can you be—as many of them are—overweight? The answer is “this paradox that hunger and obesity are two sides of the same coin,” says Melissa Boteach, vice president of the Poverty and Prosperity Program of the Center for American Progress, “people making trade-offs between food that’s filling but not nutritious and may actually contribute to obesity.” For many of the hungry in America, the extra pounds that result from a poor diet are collateral damage—an unintended side effect of hunger itself.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to launch a two-year pilot program this summer with seven retailers to allow food stamp recipients the ability to purchase their groceries online.
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The New Year is here, and with the holiday season coming to a close many people are indulging in retrospection and reevaluating some of their life choices. New Year’s resolutions are the perfect opportunity for all those who have failed to start making the changes that they said they would make next week, next month, or perhaps when winter starts.
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Give and you shall receive is most definitely true, but giving is much more than receiving. When you discover that giving is better than receiving, you’re well on your way to truly living a life of purpose and worth. Lucky for us, we have a community that understands this to the core. During this busy […]
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