One of the most requested items at North Carolina’s food banks is food that’s high in protein. Starting this week, hungry families will see their wish fulfilled dozens and dozens of times over. State Attorney General Jeff Jackson, joined by state food bank leaders, received 270,000 eggs on Tuesday, the first in a series of […]
Child food insecurity in New Hampshire grew by more than 6% from 36,160 children in 2023 to 38,430 in 2024, the national nonprofit Feeding America found in its annual “Map the Meal Gap” report and data collection. That means 15.5%, or roughly 1 in 6, Granite State children were food insecure in 2024. Because of […]
More than 186,000 people accepted help from the Great Plains Food Bank’s network of food pantries in the past year, a new record for the organization. The food bank, serving North Dakota and Clay County, Minnesota, said one in four people in the region relied on the network during the fiscal year that ended June […]
Emily Scolnick is a 2026 Dow Jones News Fund intern at the Pennsylvania Capital-Star. Food bank executives and a union leader urged Democratic lawmakers to “protect SNAP at all costs” and help support Pennsylvania’s farming and agriculture industries amid rising costs at a committee hearing Friday. The state Senate Democratic Policy Committee meeting, led by […]
Twenty years after writing an opinion editorial calling for the establishment of the Iowa Hunger Summit, former governors Terry Branstad and Tom Vilsack and former U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Quinn celebrated the legacy of the summit Wednesday. Quinn, former U.S. ambassador to Cambodia, said through his career, which included serving as president of the World Food […]
