Can American Ever Solve Its Hunger Crisis?

Editorial: SNAP crisis is over, but hunger isn’t. Give thanks, and give back.

South Carolinians gave generously when Congress cut off SNAP benefits for the hungry earlier this month, but with Thanksgiving coming up, and food banks’ stocks depleted, much more is needed.

Can American Ever Solve Its Hunger Crisis?

The ubiquity of hunger has become an unremarkable fact of 21st-century America. Like homelessness and the ceaselessly mutating drug crisis, it is duly registered in the media to little effect. Stories of hardship that magnify worrisome trends routinely circulate and undoubtedly evoke distress that is less and less alien to middle-class American families or their relatives, friends, and acquaintances. Such proximity to hunger is not an exaggerati…

Immigrant Families Face Deepening Hunger Crisis as SNAP Cuts Meet Deportation Fears – Featured – Borderless Magazine NFP

Camilla Forte/Borderless Magazine/Catchlight Local/Report for AmericaFederal benefit cuts and fear of ICE encounters are converging to push immigrant families already at higher risk of food insecurity into a deeper crisis.