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AP: Government shutdown threatens WIC food program used by millions of families
AP: Government shutdown threatens WIC food program used by millions of families
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
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ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cuts.
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-food-cuts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
"Hunger will also be harder to measure now that the USDA has canceled an annual food insecurity survey, calling it “redundant” and “politicized.”
“It feels like the idea is to make it harder to identify the consequences of the policy changes that we’re seeing right now”"
- @ProPublica
#Trump #GOP #USPol #Politics #Food #Hunger #US #USA #UnitedStates #America #News #Press
More than 100,000 children in Myanmar's western coastal state of Rakhine are suffering from acute malnutrition, with less than 2% able to access treatment, according to data provided by aid workers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/02/asia-pacific/society/myanmar-hunger-catastrophe/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #society #myanmar #rohingya #hunger #children #food #aid
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The department’s report has been published every year for 3 decades, & grew in part out of battles in the 1980s over President Ronald Reagan’s statements disputing that the #US had a #hunger problem.
The most recent report found that in 2023, 13.5% of households, w/ 47M people, were #FoodInsecure, meaning that during some portion of the year, not every member of household had access to enough #food for a healthy lifestyle.
#law #Trump #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
In a sharp break with precedent, #Trump has aggressively contested sources of government #data that he thinks casts his policies in a negative light. Last month, after a weak #jobs report, he fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor #Statistics, claiming with no evidence that the data was “rigged.”
#PublicHealth #Health #hunger #FoodInsecurity #law #SocialCleansing #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
The #Agriculture Dept report, Household #FoodSecurity in the #UnitedStates, quantifies the share of households considered “#FoodInsecure” & “very low food secure,” a subset with a more severe designation of need that applied to 5.1% of households in 2023. It analyzes those categories by #state, #race & #ethnicity. Rates are much higher among #Black & #Latino households than among #white households.
#PublicHealth #Health #hunger #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy
The #Agriculture Department said in a statement that the report had become “overly politicized, & upon subsequent review, is unnecessary to carry out the work of the department.”🤯
The department will issue a final report next month covering 2024, based on a survey from last year, but will cease fielding future surveys, according to the statement.
#PublicHealth #hunger #FoodInsecurity #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
In a sharp break with precedent, #Trump has aggressively contested sources of government #data that he thinks casts his policies in a negative light. Last month, after a weak #jobs report, he fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor #Statistics, claiming with no evidence that the data was “rigged.”
#PublicHealth #Health #hunger #FoodInsecurity #law #SocialCleansing #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
The department’s report has been published every year for 3 decades, & grew in part out of battles in the 1980s over President Ronald Reagan’s statements disputing that the #US had a #hunger problem.
The most recent report found that in 2023, 13.5% of households, w/ 47M people, were #FoodInsecure, meaning that during some portion of the year, not every member of household had access to enough #food for a healthy lifestyle.
#law #Trump #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
The #Agriculture Department said in a statement that the report had become “overly politicized, & upon subsequent review, is unnecessary to carry out the work of the department.”🤯
The department will issue a final report next month covering 2024, based on a survey from last year, but will cease fielding future surveys, according to the statement.
#PublicHealth #hunger #FoodInsecurity #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
The department’s report has been published every year for 3 decades, & grew in part out of battles in the 1980s over President Ronald Reagan’s statements disputing that the #US had a #hunger problem.
The most recent report found that in 2023, 13.5% of households, w/ 47M people, were #FoodInsecure, meaning that during some portion of the year, not every member of household had access to enough #food for a healthy lifestyle.
#law #Trump #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
This is crazy.
#Trump Admin to Stop Measuring #FoodInsecurity
The move strips the government of its main gauge of #hunger in America, & will impede efforts to track the impact of #aid cuts [that’s the plan].
#PublicHealth #Health #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/us/politics/trump-hunger-report-data.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
More than 90% of disadvantaged households in Japan are struggling to put food on the table for their children, according to a recent survey. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/17/japan/society/japan-financially-strained-households/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #ngo #poverty #hunger #children #inflation #savethechildrenjapan
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When you have more than you need,
build a longer table, not a higher wall.
#plenty #poverty #wealth #riches #inequality#GreedyBastards #hunger #homelessness
When you have more than you need,
build a longer table, not a higher wall.
#plenty #poverty #wealth #riches #inequality#GreedyBastards #hunger #homelessness
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🇺🇦🚨Call to Action from Kharkiv | Join me in using social media for good. Let’s turn visibility into logistics.
🇺🇸I am volunteering with Chervona Kalyna, and their humanitarian service has an urgent need for 🥔potatoes and vegetables. They also deliver warm meals to displaced Ukrainians near the frontline—families, elders, and those who’ve lost everything.
🔊This is a daily need. If you’re connected to any groups, farms, or suppliers who can help—please reach out or share this post.
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➡️To learn more about their mission: https://chervona-kalyna.org
✅ Every like, share and support matters.
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
#Ukraine#Food #nonprofits #foodbank #hunger#HumanitarianAid #networking
#socialmedia #StandWithUkraine
The United Nations officially declared a famine in Gaza on Friday, blaming "systematic obstruction of aid" by Israel, hours after Defence Minister Israel Katz threatened to destroy the territory's largest city. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/22/world/gaza-famine-un-declaration/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #israel #israelhamaswar #hunger #un #hamas
Michael Bacon
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Today in Labor History August 18, 1812: Lady Ludd led the Luddite Corn Market riot of women and boys in Leeds, England. Luddites also rioted in Sheffield against flour and meat sellers. England was suffering huge food shortages and inflation at the time, in part because of the War of 1812, which had started in June, and the ongoing Napoleonic wars. Additionally, new technological innovations were allowing mill owners to replace many of their employees with machines. In response, Luddites would destroy looms and other equipment. To try and get control over these worker protests, the British authorities made illegal oath-taking punishable by death in July 1812. They also empowered magistrates to forcibly enter private homes to search for weapons. And they stationed thousands of troops in areas where rioting and looting had occurred over the summer.
There are numerous parallels between that period and today. Like then, we have new technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence, that could reduce the amount of dangerous and tedious toil for the working-class, giving them higher wages and reduced hours. Instead, the technology is being used by the bosses to cut jobs and further enrich themselves. Like then, we are funding numerous wars and genocides, paid for through austerity that has been imposed on the working-class. And like then, governments are planning and implementing new repressive laws and police powers to undermine working-class protest.
Charlotte Bronte’s second novel, “Shirley” (1849), takes place in Yorkshire, 1811-1812, during the Luddite uprisings. It was originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell. The novel opens with a ruthless mill owner waiting for the delivery of new, cost-saving equipment that will allow him to fire many of his workers, but Luddites destroy the equipment before it reaches him. As a result of the novel’s popularity, Shirley became a popular female name. Prior to this, it was mostly a male name.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #luddite #england #inflation #genocide #ukraine #palestine #gaza #hunger #freespeech #fiction #novel #author #writer #books @bookstadon
Today in Labor History August 18, 1812: Lady Ludd led the Luddite Corn Market riot of women and boys in Leeds, England. Luddites also rioted in Sheffield against flour and meat sellers. England was suffering huge food shortages and inflation at the time, in part because of the War of 1812, which had started in June, and the ongoing Napoleonic wars. Additionally, new technological innovations were allowing mill owners to replace many of their employees with machines. In response, Luddites would destroy looms and other equipment. To try and get control over these worker protests, the British authorities made illegal oath-taking punishable by death in July 1812. They also empowered magistrates to forcibly enter private homes to search for weapons. And they stationed thousands of troops in areas where rioting and looting had occurred over the summer.
There are numerous parallels between that period and today. Like then, we have new technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence, that could reduce the amount of dangerous and tedious toil for the working-class, giving them higher wages and reduced hours. Instead, the technology is being used by the bosses to cut jobs and further enrich themselves. Like then, we are funding numerous wars and genocides, paid for through austerity that has been imposed on the working-class. And like then, governments are planning and implementing new repressive laws and police powers to undermine working-class protest.
Charlotte Bronte’s second novel, “Shirley” (1849), takes place in Yorkshire, 1811-1812, during the Luddite uprisings. It was originally published under the pseudonym, Currer Bell. The novel opens with a ruthless mill owner waiting for the delivery of new, cost-saving equipment that will allow him to fire many of his workers, but Luddites destroy the equipment before it reaches him. As a result of the novel’s popularity, Shirley became a popular female name. Prior to this, it was mostly a male name.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #luddite #england #inflation #genocide #ukraine #palestine #gaza #hunger #freespeech #fiction #novel #author #writer #books @bookstadon
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