Sunday, August 3, 2025

Tag: hunger

Empty tables

Food is certainly plentiful in the United States. And yet enough of it never reaches the tables of those who struggle to make ends meet.

Media forget Afghan plight as US sanctions drive mass famine risk

Afghan citizens have been plunged into a humanitarian crisis due in no small part to U.S. sanctions, but where is the outrage?

Child poverty in the US could be slashed by monthly payments...

Fifty years later, Congress and the nation are again debating a major boost in government support for families with children.

Hunger in America

COVID-19 and the nightmare of food insecurity.

As hunger soars across nation, US trade & foreign policy is...

Hunger was already at alarming levels in the U.S. before the pandemic, and it’s only gotten worse.

Only the poor starve: Hunger in the time of COVID

The World Food Program (WFP) warns that, “millions of civilians living in conflict-scarred nations, including many women and children, face being pushed to the brink of starvation, with the spectra of famine a very real and dangerous possibility.”

Bon Jovi feeds the hungry opening the doors to his third...

"What this restaurant is truly meant to do is empower."

Paying farmers fairly could curb climate change and hunger

Parity is at the core of agriculture’s potential to address overproduction.

Latin America backslides in struggle to reach zero hunger goal

"More than five million children in Latin America are permanently malnourished. In a continent of abundant food, a continent of upper-middle- and high-income countries, five million children ... It's unacceptable."

In the race to achieve zero hunger and mitigate climate change,...

"In the race to beat food insecurity, achieve zero hunger, and address climate change, we must pay attention to the soil."

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Senate vote on Sanders resolutions marks historic shift in US support for Israel’s war...

Though blocked, Bernie Sanders’s efforts to halt weapons transfers to Israel gained unprecedented Democratic support amid Gaza’s worsening famine and civilian death toll.

Bankruptcy is us

However it happens, he really does need to be trumped before he Trumps us all off this planet and global bankruptcy becomes us. 

‘Financial insecurity runs deep’: Americans blame Trump economy for rising hardship

New polling and data reveal deepening financial strain across the U.S. under Trump’s second term, with many blaming corporate power, deregulation, and GOP-backed policies for rising prices and declining economic security.

How grassroots union activists fight Trump, Republican callousness

One man is battling the callousness of Donald Trump and congressional Republicans, who have the power to help but prefer to inflict additional hardships on the people they ostensibly represent.

Is a state the ‘reward’ for genocide?

Voices around the world are saying: it’s now or never for a Palestinian state.