Local and state lawmakers are talking about food insecurity in the CSRA

Free and constant access to food remains a challenge for more than 14.4 million Colombians, just over a quarter of the national census. The National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have published a report on Thursday that reveals that 25.5 per cent of households suffered from moderate or severe food insecurity during 2024, just 0.6 per cent less than in 2023. Th…

Local and state lawmakers are talking about food insecurity in the CSRA

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) - A dozen of those lawmakers spent the morning at Golden Harvest’s Feeding the Future Roundtable talking about how to fix the hunger problem in our area. Feeding America data reveals that 1 in 6 people and 1 in 4 children across the region face food insecurity. All coming at a time when there are fears of federal funding cuts for SNAP benefits. “The house version of the budget reconciliation bill shifts costs for the actual f…