USDA cuts could significantly impact on food-insecure Marylanders

Warner, Kaine, Kiggans Lead Virginia Colleagues in Effort to Reinstate Funding

Tweet ~ This bipartisan, bicameral letter comes following USDA’s decision to halt $500 million in funding for emergency food assistance ~  WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) and U.S. Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA-02), joined by Reps. Don Beyer (D-VA-08), Gerry Connolly (D-VA-10), Jennifer McClellan (D-VA-04), Morgan Griffith (R-VA-09), Bobby Scott (D-VA-03), Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA-10), Eugene Vindman (D-VA-07), and…

Greater Boston Food Bank faces federal funding cuts

The group says it’s losing nearly $2.3 million in emergency food resources due to reductions in U.S. Department of Agriculture funding.

Federal cuts leave Maine food pantries with empty shelves and more need than ever

Overcoming federal cuts in food assistance will be a challenge for food pantries, and could be an insurmountable task for smaller organizations that serve especially vulnerable populations, hunger prevention advocates say.

Letter: SNAP could be reduced, increasing food insecurity

LETTER TO THE EDITOR:

History has shown that “hangry” populations fuel instability: PennLive letters

The FY25 Foreign Affairs Budget plans to cut the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) from $10 million to zero. The program was launched after the 2007-08 food price crisis, which was sparked by climate shocks, export bans, and weak investment. It saw staple prices soar, triggering food riots in over 30 countries and deepening poverty worldwide, including in the United States. Eliminating GAFSP risks a repeat. Climate-driven crop…

'Crisis on the verge of catastrophe': food assistance cuts are trouble for greater Grand Forks providers and their clients

GRAND FORKS — Emergency nutrition providers say cuts to federal food assistance programs could prove disastrous for families on both sides of the Red River. Halted and canceled food deliveries to food banks serving North Dakota and northern Minnesota are set to test those agencies and the several hundred food pantries they serve, according to food bank and pantry operators. The hold on deliveries, which could begin affecting North Dakota as soon…