Desperately needed emergency food assistance would expire on September 30 under McConnell’s “skinny” stimulus bill.
Hunger
The pandemic has caused tremendous suffering for rural and Native people as well as youth and people with disabilities.
Over one-quarter of households with children reported food insecurity in recent weeks.
For refugees, social distancing is often impossible and health care is extremely limited.
Even before the pandemic, family poverty forced over 22 million children to rely on free or reduced-fee school meals.
States are implementing their own programs to keep farms and food banks afloat and needy families fed.
The number of COVID-19 cases in Africa could rise to 10 million in the next three to six months.
Recently introduced federal legislation would make free meals mandatory for all public school students.
Our political and economic systems are twisted to undermine food security for some for the benefit of others.
Every dollar of public money for U.S. militarism is a dollar that could fight hunger, homelessness or climate change.