In North Carolina, the working poor make up one-third of the workforce, half of residents can’t afford their rent, and wages are lower today than before the recession. Hannah Randall, Chief Executive Officer of MANNA Food Bank in Asheville, NC, suspects the situation is worse than the data suggests in…
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Early in Jaynee Day’s career as President and CEO of Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee, a local grocer moved away, wiping out millions of pounds of donated food, plus a tidy income the food bank had generated by handling the grocer’s reclamation needs. Day wound up turning the…
It’s the rare celebrity chef who is also a policy wonk, but that at least partly describes Michel Nischan, a three-time James Beard Award winning chef who’s as conversant as anyone in Congress on the nuances of the farm bill. Nischan is also a food activist and innovator who figured…
In Catherine D’Amato’s vision of the future, doctors will ask patients whether they have enough food in their household just as routinely as they inquire about smoking or alcohol consumption. Hunger will increasingly be viewed as a matter of public health, and public and private entities will work together to…