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Undated: USDA's
food distribution programs strengthen the nutrition safety net through the
distribution of USDA Foods and other nutrition assistance to children,
low-income families, emergency feeding programs, Indian reservations, and the
elderly.
https://www.usda.gov/topics/food-and-nutrition/food-distribution
-- 2017 --
March 29:
Subsistence farmers stand to be among the biggest losers from the president’s
dismantling of Barack Obama’s climate change legacy.
Smallholder farmers in Africa ... are
among the world’s most vulnerable people to climate change ...
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump took his
most concrete step thus far to unravel his predecessor’s legacy on climate
change, with a
wide-ranging executive order
that dismantles several Obama-era policies to restrict greenhouse gas pollution.
The order outraged environmentalists—Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) called it “a
declaration of war on American leadership on climate change”—but it wasn’t very
surprising: It simply followed through on a threat contained in the budget Trump
proposed two weeks ago.
“We’re not spending money on that anymore,” Mick Mulvaney, director of the White
House’s Office of Management and Budget
said
then, in response to a question about climate change during a press conference.
“We consider that to be a waste of your money to go out and do that.”
That stance could be a big problem for the dozens of farmers I’ve met across
sub-Saharan Africa as a journalist reporting on climate change impacts to food
security.
https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2017/03/29/trumps-new-executive-order-will-worsen-hunger-in-africa/
April 20: Comey: Trump has 'an emptiness
inside of him and a hunger for affirmation'
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/384098-comey-trump-has-an-emptiness-inside-of-him-and-a-hunger-for-affirmation
April 20: As
famine descends on a huge swath of the globe, the White House is rolling back
aid, ramping up conflict and risking more climate chaos.
One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. The quote comes
from Joseph Stalin. The policy comes from Donald Trump.
Trump famously changed his policy on Syria after seeing photographs of a couple
Syrian children killed by a chemical attack. It didn’t matter that the Syrian
government had already killed
thousands of children. In targeting the Assad regime, Trump was moved by the
tragedy, not the statistic.
When it comes to world hunger, Trump’s resistance to statistics is even more
appalling. There are now 1.4
million children at risk of dying from famine. No one apparently has shown
Donald Trump, or his daughter Ivanka, any photos of these at-risk children. So,
the US president is comfortably ignoring this statistic.
https://www.fairobserver.com/region/north_america/donald-trump-yemen-famine-south-sudan-somalia-nigeria-world-news-latest-33039/
May 22: Rep. Susan Davis, a California
Democrat, has introduced legislation in Congress that would change that [a] bill
titled the
Military Prevention Hunger Act,
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/04/19/524563155/when-active-duty-service-members-struggle-to-feed-their-families
May 24: Donald Trump to Hungry Seniors: Drop
Dead
Some 10 million elders are threatened by hunger—but the president’s budget would
slash desperately needed funding for food programs.
https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-hungry-seniors-drop-dead/
September 28: The Republican Attack on
Feeding the Hungry
GOP budget proposals take aim at one of America’s most significant bipartisan
achievements.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/the-bipartisan-beginnings-of-the-food-stamp-act/541302/
-- 2018 --
January 11: Kids are eating less whole
grains and more sugary milk in school lunches this year — see how federal rules
have changed for the worse ... More sugary chocolate milk, fewer whole grains,
and around 300 extra milligrams of salt — these are just some of the ways the
Trump Administration has
relaxed school-lunch nutrition rules put in place during the Obama
Administration.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-administration-relax-school-lunch-rules-2018-1
February 18: President Trump's Hunger Games
The administration’s proposal to overhaul SNAP would squeeze the nutrition
safety net, and make it more paternalistic.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/snap-trump-harvest-box/553481/
February 22: Trump's Food Stamps Cuts Will
Leave More Americans Hungry
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-food-stamps-snap-hunger-815327
March 9: President Trump's "Harvest Box"
Plan Will Cause Hunger to Soar
https://theshriverbrief.org/president-trumps-harvest-box-plan-will-cause-hunger-to-soar-2811eb2f93d8?gi=61c7088e13c2
June 27: Ethel Kennedy, 90, Joins Alec
Baldwin and More Stars in Hunger Strike Against Trump Immigration Policy
https://people.com/politics/ethel-kennedy-hunger-strike-trump-immigration-policy/
July 9: Trump Is Turning His Back on People
Experiencing Poverty and Hunger
https://www.actionaidusa.org/blog/trump-turning-back-human-rights/
Undated:
Trump commits $300 million to fight Africa famine
US President Donald Trump told Pope Francis on Wednesday he was committing more
than $300 million (270 million euros) to help prevent or tackle famine in Yemen
and several countries in Africa.
https://www.worldhunger.org/trump-commits-300-million-fight-africa-famine/
September 6: As Trump targets food stamps,
hunger around the U.S. remains high
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/americas-food-insecurity-still-worse-than-in-2007/
September 24: As Venezuelans go hungry,
Trump targets food corruption
https://www.apnews.com/d4e050fc4fe741369928b2468694a16e
October 1:
Hunger
fighters who devote their lives to feeding people in poverty are suddenly facing
an odd and unprecedented situation:
They may have too much food on their hands.
What's being described as a "tsunami" of product will be
released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture beginning in December. It
will flow throughout America to regional food banks and neighborhood food
cupboards, including the estimated 900 cupboards in the Philadelphia region.
Many U.S. farmers are unable to sell their bounty abroad because foreign nations
have retaliated against tariffs imposed by President Trump by taxing American
agricultural products. The USDA is buying up that food, and diverting some of it
to the charitable food network.
http://www2.philly.com/philly/news/food-poverty-farmers-tariffs-trump-administration-philabundance-share-pennsylvania-20181001.html
October 12:
EVERYONE has the right to be free from hunger.
It shouldn’t be about what you look like, where you were born or what’s in your
wallet; it’s how you live your life and contribute to your community that
defines you in this country.
Building on the traumatic separation
of families at the border, the Trump administration wants to block immigrant
families from having a permanent, secure future in the United States and scare
them away from seeking access to health care, nutrition and housing programs.
For the first time ever, this will include if they use SNAP (food stamps),
Medicaid and housing assistance to help make ends meet.
If this regulation moves forward, only the wealthiest immigrants could build a
future in the United States. Let’s be clear what this is. Under the proposed
regulation, the “public charge” rule would establish a rigged immigration system
where green cards would only be available to a wealthy few while immigrant
families with modest incomes—many with U.S. citizen children—could be denied the
possibility of a permanent future together.
https://oregonhunger.org/public-charge/
October 16: Hunger group fears Trump rule
proposal will harm immigrants
https://www.rutlandherald.com/news/hunger-group-fears-trump-rule-proposal-will-harm-immigrants/article_43a3666e-6a89-5c96-aba4-88374bc11231.html
-- 2019 --
-- 2020 --
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