Fact Sheet: Coronavirus (COVID-19) and SNAP
SNAP is designed to respond to changes in need, making it well suited to respond to crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the first line of...
View ArticleRacially Equitable Responses to Hunger During COVID-19 and Beyond
New Report: Since the pandemic began, Latino/a and Black households are twice as likely to report being food insecure as white households. By Marlysa D. Gamblin and Kathleen King The U.S. Department of...
View ArticleA Year Later: Regaining momentum
By Michele Learner March is Women’s History Month in the United States, and on March 8, the world observed International Women’s Day. First and foremost, gender equity is a critical component of...
View ArticleFact Sheet: Permanently expand the Child Tax Credit to reduce child hunger
Expanding the CTC would do more to reduce hunger and poverty among our nation’s children than any single policy has in decades. The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan includes a one-year expansion of...
View ArticleC-Span Washington Journal
Bread for the World interim co-managing director Heather Taylor spoke with C-SPAN’s Washington Journal about the impact of the Biden administration’s approval of the largest permanent increase in SNAP...
View ArticleRev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and a 2023 Pan African Advocacy Agenda
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? This is the question the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. probed in his last publication in 1967. This last book aligned his domestic vision of the...
View ArticleBlack History, the Root Causes of Hunger, and Reparatory Justice
“Do good, seek justice.” Jeremiah 1:17 Black History Month 2023 invites a timely reflection on how we repair the historic root causes of hunger in communities in Africa and in communities elsewhere in...
View ArticleEstablishing Food Security: NAP to SNAP in Puerto Rico
Jayson Call Fragoso is 52-years old and serves as part of the Puerto Rico Chaplain service organization. He has dedicated the last 13 years of his life to servicing Puerto Ricans who do not have...
View ArticleWorld Food Day 2023: Do, Lord, Remember Black Lives
Do, Lord, do, Lord, do remember me. When I’m dyin’, do remember me. When I’m in trouble, do remember me. When this world’s on fire, do remember me. O do, Lord, remember me. In the early 1800’s, during...
View ArticleThe Best Anti-Poverty Program: Give Them Money
The best anti-poverty program in United States these days, if not elsewhere, is universal basic income (UBI). We saw proof of this in the latest Census Bureau report released in September. The proof...
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The Farm Bill: What It Is and What It Means for Hunger (2023)
The farm bill is legislation that is critical to ending hunger in the U.S. and internationally. It doesn’t just affect farmers. It also impacts every person in the U.S. who eats and buys food, as well...
View ArticleEnding Child Hunger in America through the Universal School Meals Act
By Izzy Koo The United States is often called the wealthiest country in the world, yet 13 million children are food insecure. Thirteen million young boys and girls across this country cannot be sure...
View ArticleOngoing Hunger Crisis in Mali: Why is This Happening?
By Sia Gevao Bread for the World has consistently sought to draw attention to the hunger crisis affecting millions of people in Mali and neighboring countries. According to the latest hunger hotspots...
View ArticleReimagining Resilience
By Syeda Lamia Hossein “Resilience” is both a powerful concept and an increasingly familiar term in international development, where organizations often mention resilience-focused policies,...
View ArticleHunger Hotspots: Starvation Must Not Be a Weapon of War
This month’s entry in Bread for the World’s Hunger Hotspots series, the last for 2023, goes “back to basics.” It revisits an idea that has shaped Bread’s work since its founding nearly 50 years ago,...
View ArticleHunger Hotspots: 45 Million Children with Acute Malnutrition
An estimated 45 million children under 5—that’s almost 7 percent of all children in this age group—are suffering from the most dangerous form of malnutrition, known as childhood wasting. In the United...
View ArticleReducing U.S. Hunger by Closing the Gender Pay Gap
Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series that explores how anti-hunger advocates can help promote gender pay equity as an essential element of ending hunger. Hunger in the United States...
View ArticleWomen and Girls in the Beautiful Island of Haiti Need Food, Peace, and Security
By Abiola Afolayan According to the U.S. Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stability Plan for Haiti, the country does not have a Women Peace and Security National Action Plan, and gangs target...
View ArticleHigh Hunger Rates in Undocumented Communities
By Florencia Makk Chronic hunger continues to affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide, but even within one country, hunger and food insecurity are more common and more severe in some...
View ArticleA Manmade Famine in Gaza
By Syeda Lamia Hossain “We need food,” is the first thing Gazans say upon meeting James Elder, spokesperson for UNICEF, the U.N. children’s agency. “[Gazans] are saying that because their assumption...
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