A New Look at Feeding Our Neighbors
Today’s online Washington Post is featuring a big story investigating efforts to relook at how our country reaches out to hungry people.
Here’s an excerpt:
In soup kitchens, food pantries and universities across the country, activists are planting the seeds for an overhaul of the way America feeds its more than 35 million hungry people, the first major challenge to a system largely developed in the 1960s.
They have begun providing food where people live and work, reconsidering the need for big, urban facilities and pushing for larger government food subsidies.
The goal is to make food more easily available to working poor women, children and others who, research shows, are a larger portion of the hungry than the urban homeless. They also hope to lessen the stigma associated with standing in line for a hot meal or groceries.
Link: A Fresh Look At How Best To Get Food To 35 Million
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