Faith Leaders Meet With Congressional Leaders on Poverty-Focused Programs
A diverse group of faith leaders from across the country is visiting Capitol Hill today to ask their congressional representatives to prioritize funding for global health, development assistance,...
View ArticleA land of prosperity, a land of hunger
By Shalom Khokhar Growing up, my family and I would go grocery shopping on Saturdays. My favorite place to go was Sam’s Club because they always had free samples. From snacks to desserts, it was always...
View ArticleU.S.-Africa Trade Bill Passes Congress
Bread for the World applauds the 10-year extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which passed yesterday in Congress. This is the first 10-year reauthorization of AGOA since it was...
View ArticleClosing the summer hunger gap
By Jennifer Gonzalez A year ago, Lane Riley took a leap of faith. She moved from her home in South Carolina to operate a summer meals site for children in rural Shaw, Miss. One pastor helped secure a...
View ArticleStrengthening Local Capacity: The Weak Link in Sustainable Development
Country ownership is critical to achieving development outcomes such as reducing hunger and extreme poverty. Well-functioning state and non-state institutions are necessary elements of an enabling...
View ArticleAdvocacy 101: Making a Difference in Congress
Advocacy 101 provides a largely secular explanation of how Bread for the World carries out its advocacy with Congress. It explains the legislative process at the federal level and how Bread activists,...
View ArticleGlobal goals? We're getting there
By Stefanie Casdorph At the beginning of the new millennium, world leaders gathered at the United Nations to shape a broad vision to fight poverty and its many causes and effects. This vision turned...
View ArticleCollege student fights hunger on multiple fronts
By Jennifer Gonzalez Nothing irks Maria Rose Belding more than hearing legislators say that food pantries can fill in the food gap when SNAP (formerly food stamps) benefits are cut. “No, no, no. That...
View ArticleSchool's out for the summer (but hunger's not)
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View ArticleTell your representative to ‘Feed the Future’
By Eric Mitchell Thanks to your calls and emails, there is strong, bipartisan support for the Global Food Security Act of 2015 (H.R. 1567) in Congress. This act authorizes — makes permanent — the Feed...
View ArticleEITC and CTC missing from tax break conversation
By Amelia Kegan Nearly two hours. The Senate Finance Committee on July 21 spent nearly two hours talking about expired tax benefits. Many items came up during those two hours: biodiesel, conservation...
View ArticleDevelopment Works: Short Essays Explaining Myths and Realities about...
Seven short essays make the case for effective international development assistance. Each short essay answer key questions from why development assistance is so important and what impact it has to...
View ArticleFederal Safety-Net Programs Continue to Keep Millions Out of Poverty
Washington, D.C., September 16, 2015 – Today, despite relatively little change in U.S. poverty numbers, Bread for the World points to new U.S. Census Bureau data showing that federal safety-net...
View ArticleBread for the World President Urges Food-Aid Reforms During House Committee...
Washington, D.C., October 7, 2015 – Today, Bread for the World president Rev. David Beckmann reaffirmed the need for key reforms in the U.S.’s international food-aid system in testimony before the...
View ArticlePan para el Mundo Exhorta Aprobación de Acuerdo de Presupuesto de Dos Años
Washington, D.C. – Pan para el Mundo exhorta a los gobernantes a que no demoren en aprobar el acuerdo presupuestario de los próximos dos años realizado la noche del pasado lunes por líderes del...
View ArticleBread for the World Urges Quick Passage of Two-Year Budget Deal
Washington, D.C. – Bread for the World urges lawmakers to quickly pass the two-year budget deal reached last night by congressional leaders and the White House. “Kudos to Speaker John Boehner for...
View ArticleDomestic Resource Mobilization for Development
At the Third Financing for Development Conference in July 2015, the United States pledged, through the Addis Tax Initiative, to significantly increase foreign assistance that supports countries in...
View ArticleAnti-hunger and Anti-poverty Programs Safe for Now
Congress Passes Two-Year Budget Deal [Note: this article appears in Bread’s 2015 November-December newsletter] By Jennifer Gonzalez and Amelia Kegan After months of fiscal gridlock on Capitol Hill,...
View ArticleBread for the World Welcomes Confirmation of New USAID Chief
Washington, D.C.– Bread for the World welcomes the confirmation today of Gayle Smith as the new administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). “We wholeheartedly welcome the...
View ArticleStatement on Jeb Bush’s Proposal to End Food Stamps
Columbia, S.C.– In response to the proposal by presidential candidate Jeb Bush to eliminate the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly known as food stamps) and replace it with...
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