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Not everyone was in the room where it happens when President Biden addressed Congress for the first time.
In today’s Congressional Corner, New York Congressman Paul Tonko, a Democrat from the 20th district, continues his conversation with WAMC’s Alan Chartock.
This interview was recorded May 3.
News by Diana Jenkins 17th May 2021 5:18 AM Millions of Australians face the threat of hunger this year, as the lasting impacts of coronavirus, drought and bushfires force people who have never previously needed help to reach out for food relief. Charities in the sector fear that despite a positive budget, the next 12 months will be a time of enormous uncertainty, with children and single-parent families doing it especially tough. It s one of the toughest times we ve faced in the modern era for food relief, said Feed Appeal CEO Katherine Gokavi-Whaley. The compounding effect of successive natural disasters meeting a global pandemic has seen many Australians facing an unprecedented level of uncertainty and insecurity.
Harsh Mander: A lesson in how to end the mass suffering unleashed by India’s first lockdown
A report by the collective Hunger Watch reveals the extent of continuing hunger caused by state policy, and recommends ways to end the distress. 2 hours ago A migrant worker feeds her child water while they wait in a queue for transport to reach Ahmedabad railway station to board a train to their home state of Uttar Pradesh. | Amit Dave/Reuters
A spectacularly uncaring, unaccountable state has abandoned Indians to their fate. Bodies are piling up, pyres burn late into the night, and corpses are buried in anonymous mass graves. Loved ones are choking to death because their governments failed to secure them oxygen. Vaccines have fallen short in a country that prides itself as the vaccine factory of the world. Black marketeering thrives in life-saving hospital beds, medicines and oxygen concentrators. Confused lockdowns have once again spurred the panicked exodus
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Food insecurity in the world’s poorest countries reached record highs in 2020, with millions staring at famine, a situation exacerbated in part by the COVID pandemic, according to a UN report.
From Haiti to Syria, some 155 million people across 55 countries who rely the most on humanitarian assistance were classified as being in “crisis” – meaning in urgent need of food – a 20 million increase since 2019, according to the report released Wednesday.
The report – based on a study organised by the Global Network Against Food Crises, a partnership between the European Union, Food and Agriculture Organization, and the UN World Food Programme – attributed three main factors to the worsening situation: conflict, economic factors related to the COVID pandemic and climate change.