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MAZON Highlights Food Insecurity at ‘Hunger Bites’ Event

Esther D. Kustanowitz June 12, 2019

To the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture: Keep our troops fed

Jewish Journal January 21, 2016

This testimony was presented to the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture’s Subcommittee on Nutrition on Jan. 12\n

Why isn’t this night different?

Jewish Journal April 9, 2014

Predictably, the 2015 House Republican budget released by House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on April 1 proposes devastating and monumental cuts to programs designed to help those among us who need it most.

SNAP cut: Who decides who’s hungry?

Jewish Journal September 24, 2013

On Sept. 29, the House of Representatives passed a bill that slashes nearly $40 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps). It’s difficult to capture just how monumental a shift this is in American policy.

Senate passes farm bill, rejects full SNAP funding

Jewish Journal June 22, 2012

The U.S. Senate passed the Farm Bill, whose final version some Jewish organizations had expressed dismay over because it did not include full funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which provides food stamps.