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Rural and Native Communities Are Hard Hit by COVID-Era Food Insecurity
The pandemic has caused tremendous suffering for rural and Native people as well as youth and people with disabilities.
Trump Is Placing Letters in Food Aid Boxes to Boost His Reelection Campaign
Democrats say the letters violate the law against using government resources to campaign.
Austerity Measures Have No Place in Next Coronavirus Relief Bill
Two congressional proposals put the burden of debt reduction on the poorest and most vulnerable Americans.
Schools Are Struggling to Feed Hungry Students as Unemployment Rises
Even before the pandemic, family poverty forced over 22 million children to rely on free or reduced-fee school meals.
Amid Coronavirus, Trump Moves to Take Food Stamps From Over a Million People
The rule would impose more strict work requirements on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients.
AI Algorithms Intended to Catch Welfare Fraud Often Punish the Poor Instead
These tools are often built on the assumption that fraud among the poor is endemic. In fact, it is rare.
All Students Should Receive Free School Meals
Recently introduced federal legislation would make free meals mandatory for all public school students.
Trump Finalizes Plan to Strip Food Aid From 750,000 Low-Income People by 2020
The rule, combined with two other proposed SNAP changes, would strip federal food aid from 3.7 million people.
Mayor Pete Is Wrong — Free Public College Could Unite the Country
Universal public goods, such as Social Security, are widely popular. The same would likely be true for higher education.
White House Moves to Strip Free School Lunches From 500,000 Kids
Bernie Sanders condemned the “casual cruelty that motivates Trump and his billionaire friends.”