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October 21, 2020 / Last updated : October 21, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

“Staggering” need: COVID-19 has led to rising levels in food insecurity across the U.S. (CBS News)

CBS News: “Staggering” need: COVID-19 has led to rising levels in food insecurity across the U.S.. “A June report by the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) at Northwestern University found that food insecurity had doubled overall and tripled among families with children due to the pandemic, relying on data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household […]

October 6, 2020 / Last updated : October 6, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Wall Street Journal: Food Crisis Grows Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

Wall Street Journal: Food Crisis Grows Amid Coronavirus Pandemic. “The pandemic has doubled the number of people who are acutely food insecure, said Arif Husain, chief economist at the United Nations World Food Programme, from 135 million people in 2019 to 270 million. Food aid will be at a record, he said, hopefully reaching some […]

September 15, 2020 / Last updated : September 15, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

The Other Way Covid Will Kill: Hunger (New York Times)

New York Times: The Other Way Covid Will Kill: Hunger. “Long before the pandemic swept into her village in the rugged southeast of Afghanistan, Halima Bibi knew the gnawing fear of hunger. It was an omnipresent force, an unrelenting source of anxiety as she struggled to nourish her four children. Her husband earned about $5 […]

September 7, 2020 / Last updated : September 7, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Debt, eviction and hunger: Millions fall back into crisis as stimulus and safety nets vanish (Washington Post)

Washington Post: Debt, eviction and hunger: Millions fall back into crisis as stimulus and safety nets vanish. “Major recessions are especially fraught for low-income earners, whose finances can veer from tenuous to dire with one missed paycheck. But as the economy cratered this spring, economists and poverty experts were mildly surprised to discover that the […]

July 30, 2020 / Last updated : July 30, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

HuffPost: Coronavirus-Linked Hunger Tied To 10,000 Child Deaths Each Month

HuffPost: Coronavirus-Linked Hunger Tied To 10,000 Child Deaths Each Month. “All around the world, the coronavirus and its restrictions are pushing already hungry communities over the edge, cutting off meager farms from markets and isolating villages from food and medical aid. Virus-linked hunger is leading to the deaths of 10,000 more children a month over […]

July 30, 2020 / Last updated : July 30, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Bloomberg: Almost 30 Million in U.S. Didn’t Have Enough to Eat Last Week

Bloomberg: Almost 30 Million in U.S. Didn’t Have Enough to Eat Last Week. “Food insecurity for U.S. households last week reached its highest reported level since the Census Bureau started tracking the data in May, with almost 30 million Americans reporting that they’d not had enough to eat at some point in the seven days […]

July 24, 2020 / Last updated : July 24, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

New York Times: Are You Eligible for Food Stamps Now? Maybe, but It’s Complex

New York Times: Are You Eligible for Food Stamps Now? Maybe, but It’s Complex. “SNAP is overseen by the Department of Agriculture, which lays out the rules. States handle applications and administration, and they have some leeway with the federal regulations. (And with the terms: Missouri still uses the older ‘food stamp’ phrasing.) As a […]

July 23, 2020 / Last updated : July 23, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Abe Foxman’s next act: Raising $28 million to feed thousands of struggling Holocaust survivors (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Abe Foxman’s next act: Raising $28 million to feed thousands of struggling Holocaust survivors. “Since retiring from his post as national director of the Anti-Defamation League in 2015, Abraham Foxman has had plenty of opportunities to take on other projects in the Jewish world. Until now, he’s almost always said no. But […]

July 16, 2020 / Last updated : July 16, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Honolulu Civil Beat: The Pandemic Is Changing How Hawaii Gets Its Food

Honolulu Civil Beat: The Pandemic Is Changing How Hawaii Gets Its Food. “As Hawaii residents scramble to ride out the financial storm of COVID-19, a staggering number of people now find themselves facing food insecurity. As a result, many residents are acquiring food differently — trading and bartering for groceries, fishing or hunting more, planting […]

July 4, 2020 / Last updated : July 4, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

New York Times: European Workers Draw Paychecks. American Workers Scrounge for Food.

New York Times: European Workers Draw Paychecks. American Workers Scrounge for Food.. “The pandemic has ravaged Europeans and Americans alike, but the economic pain has played out in starkly different fashion. The United States has relied on a significant expansion of unemployment insurance, cushioning the blow for tens of millions of people who have lost […]

July 3, 2020 / Last updated : July 3, 2020 ResearchBuzz Research & Opinion

Study: Crowdsourced data could help map urban food deserts (EurekAlert)

EurekAlert: Study: Crowdsourced data could help map urban food deserts. “In a feasibility study published in the journal Frontiers in Public Health, scholars found that the methods used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to identify areas with low access to healthy food are often outdated and narrow in scope. Their findings indicate that […]

July 2, 2020 / Last updated : July 2, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Phys .org: COVID-19 leaving some Americans sick and hungry

Phys .org: COVID-19 leaving some Americans sick and hungry. “The COVID-19 pandemic is not just making Americans sick, it’s leaving many hungry as well, and experts who gathered for a Harvard Chan School forum on the problem said that legislation to relieve the pandemic’s economic burden may be able to help.”

June 21, 2020 / Last updated : June 21, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

BNN Bloomberg: The Pandemic Is Exacerbating America’s Systemic Food Inequality

BNN Bloomberg: The Pandemic Is Exacerbating America’s Systemic Food Inequality. ” Access to food has been unequal in America long before the onset of the coronavirus. But the pandemic has deepened the problem, with images of snaking lines at food banks bringing the harsh reality to light. Even in the U.S., one of the most […]

June 5, 2020 / Last updated : June 5, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

FEATURE-As lockdown fuels food shortages, Africa goes online for groceries (Reuters)

Reuters: FEATURE-As lockdown fuels food shortages, Africa goes online for groceries. “In many African countries, measures put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19 have made it harder for people to access affordable, nutritious foods, sparking warnings from aid groups that the pandemic will worsen malnutrition rates. An estimated 73 million people in Africa […]

June 2, 2020 / Last updated : June 2, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

ProPublica: Contractors for Trump’s Controversial $3 Billion Food Aid Program Have Hired a Longtime Lobbyist to Tout Their Work

ProPublica: Contractors for Trump’s Controversial $3 Billion Food Aid Program Have Hired a Longtime Lobbyist to Tout Their Work. “Companies receiving taxpayer dollars as part of President Donald Trump’s signature food aid program hired a longtime lobbyist to push back on criticism that the government is relying on unqualified contractors, such as an event planner.”

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