A new initiative is providing funding to individuals and grassroots groups across the Commonwealth with creative solutions to reduce hunger among rural children. The Rural Child Hunger Research and Innovation Lab launched today by Save the Children said it aims to help communities design and test out their ideas. Alyssa Taylor, Kentucky state director for Save the Children, said recent natural disasters, including the floods in eastern Kentucky, have spurred crowdsourcing and voucher programs to keep families fed and supply businesses with customers amid recovery efforts. .
A program to provide low-income people vouchers to buy fresh fruits and vegetables may see its county funding cut in half at the Board of Supervisors meeting today in Los Angeles. L.A. County has to decide how to spend the second round of funding from the American Rescue Plan, and it has proposed spending $1 million for next year, down from the $2 million it allocated for the current fiscal year. .
RICHMOND — It's that time of year when kitchens are bubbling over as home gardeners preserve their bounty. But there was a time when homegrown produce could be…
September is National Hunger Action Month, and groups across Arkansas are part of a nationwide push to get more people involved with reducing food insecurity. In North Little Rock, one is taking a unique approach to fighting hunger. More than 444,000 Arkansans are not always sure where their next meal is coming from, according to the nonprofit group Feeding America, and more than 138,000 of them are children. .
It s that time of year when kitchens are bubbling over as home gardeners preserve their bounty. But there was a time when homegrown produce could be taken to a local cannery to be preserved. After World War II, the U.S. .