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Evictions, hunger, wage theft: pandemic triple threat to workers
By G. Dunkel posted on May 11, 2021
It’s hard to put food on the table when you don’t have a home where you can put the table. The poorest workers in the United States disproportionately people of color rent their homes. During the current COVID pandemic, millions of them are at risk of losing their housing.
On May Day, the Laundry Workers Center protests wage theft, New York City.
Estimates on the amount of back rent currently owed range from $8.4 billion owed by 1.4 million households, from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia; to $24.4 billion owed by 14.2 million households, from the U.S. Census Bureau; to $52.6 billion owed by 9.4 million households, from Moody’s Analytics.
Damon, who has led pop-up dinner series and worked as the culinary director of
Cherry Bombe, had long noticed how difficult it was to access nutritious, affordable groceries in her Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. It was a void she knew she could help fill, building something that was “bred from the moment, but for forever.” The idea was the starting place for her organization, Kia Feeds the People Program, a budding nonprofit dedicated to putting quality produce and pantry items in the hands of underserved Black and queer and trans people of color (QTPOC) in Brooklyn.
The best solutions for the problems facing communities often come out of the communities themselves no one knows as intimately the depth of need, or the nuances involved in addressing those needs. Little wonder then that over the past year, Black-led initiatives like Kia Feeds the People have felt especially vital as the Black Lives Matter protests, which filled streets around the country in response to the po