New & Noteworthy

10/16/18
World Food Day 2018 - #ZeroHunger Starts at Home
10/12/18
Food for Immigrants Attacked – Help Fight Back
08/21/18
Commemorate 9/11 and help your fellow hungry Americans!
08/20/18
STRIKE OUT HUNGER NYC SWEEPSTAKES
07/20/18
Volunteer Opp! Summer Meals outreach in Harlem, Manhattan
07/12/18
Volunteer Opp! - Summer Meals Outreach in Chinatown, Manhattan
07/07/18
Volunteer Opp! SNAP outreach at Community Health Fair, Elmhurst, Queens
07/01/18
Volunteer Opp! SNAP outreach at the Flatbush Avenue BID Fair, Flatbush, Brooklyn
06/30/18
Volunteer Opp! SNAP outreach at Community Health Fair, Corona, Queens
06/21/18
Advocates React to G.O.P. House Farm Bill Passage:
06/14/18
Just Released! Declining SNAP Participation Report
06/13/18
Anti-Hunger Advocates Cautiously Praise Senate Farm Bill
05/18/18
Advocates React to Defeat of G.O.P. House Farm Bill
04/12/18
House Republicans Propose Billions of Dollars in Food Aid Cuts
04/02/18
New York State Budget to Include School Breakfast Expansion Statewide
04/01/18
Annual April Fools Day Release Cancelled
03/21/18
Comments Re: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Requirements and Services for Able-Bodied Adults without Dependents; Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
02/16/18
Joel Berg at A Place at the Table Viewing at Holy Trinity Neighborhood Center, NYC
02/13/18
Testimony of Joel Berg, CEO, Hunger Free America
02/13/18
Testimony of Annette Jackson, Food Action Board Member
02/12/18
New Trump Budget Increases His Previously Proposed Food Cut to $213 Billion
02/09/18
Trump Reportedly to Target Food Aid to Legal Immigrants
01/11/18
Trump Allows Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements
01/05/18
Book Review of America, We Need to Talk by Lee Riley Powell, Co-Chair, Economic Equality Caucus and Executive Director, Delta Grassroots Caucus
12/18/17
Final Tax Bill Would Still Increase Poverty & Hunger
12/04/17
New Analysis: G.O.P. Senate Tax Bill Would Increase Burden on Americans in Poverty by $140 Billion While Wealthiest Would Pay $833 Billion Less
11/21/17
One in Twelve Queens Adults Are Working But Hungry
11/21/17
One in Nine Brooklyn Adults Are Working But Hungry
11/20/17
43 Percent of Staten Island Food Pantries and Soup Kitchens Unable To Meet Increasing Demand
11/19/17
One in Thirteen Manhattan Adults Are Working But Hungry
11/18/17
Hunger Dips in NY City & State, But Still Higher Than Pre-Recession
11/20/17
Turkey of a Tax Bill, Just in in Time for Thanksgiving, Would Increase Hunger Nationwide;
11/17/17
Working Hunger Epidemic Still Engulfs 15 Million Americans; New National Report Details Americans Employed but Food Insecure
11/17/17
Hunger Increased in Philadelphia City and Region, Bucking National Trends, According to Federal Data
11/22/17
Queens, NYC- Annual Hunger Survey Report Press Conference
11/21/17
Brooklyn, NYC- Annual Hunger Survey Report Press Conference
11/20/17
Staten Island, NYC- Annual Hunger Survey Press Conference
11/19/17
Manhattan, NYC- Annual Hunger Survey Press Conference
11/18/17
Bronx, NYC- Annual Hunger Survey Press Conference
11/17/17
Philadelphia- Annual Hunger Survey Press Conference
11/13/17
New Chart Depicting Minimum Wage Affects on Hunger
11/09/17
Help Prepare our Annual Hunger Survey Mailings! 11/9
11/08/17
Help Prepare our Annual Hunger Survey Mailings! 11/8
11/02/17
New York City - New York, Hunter College Food Policy Conference
11/08/17
Hunger Simulation at Stephen Gaynor School
10/24/17
Advocacy Workshop at Stephen Gaynor School
11/16/17
New York City - New York, Politics of Food Conference
10/20/17
Presque Isle - Maine, University of Maine
09/20/17
Hartford - Connecticut, Hartford Food Bank
09/05/17
Orange County -California, Food Bank of OC
10/11/17
Testimony of Joel Berg, CEO, Hunger Free America Submitted to The Next Farm Bill, Conversations in the Field
09/27/17
Joel Berg Honors the Life of Gus Schumacher
09/12/17
U.S. Poverty Still Higher Than Before Recession, Census Reports
09/06/17
Testimony of Natosha McCray, Food Action Board Member, Hunger Free America
09/06/17
New USDA Data: 41.2 Million Americans – and 12.9 Million Children – Still Struggle Against Hunger
09/06/17
Hunger Leaders Call for Monetary Donations to Local Groups, and for Government to Ensure Rapid and Robust Food Response to Harvey;
08/28/17
Harvey Also a Disaster for Hungry School Children
08/16/17
NYC IBO: New Trump Budget Proposal Set to Empty Low-Income New Yorker’s Grocery Carts by $1.2 Billion Yearly
09/15/17
Volunteer in Portland, Oregon
08/17/17
FRAC Needs Interns in Baltimore, MD
09/01/17
Intern with us in NYC!
08/17/17
Promote Free Summer Meals in NYC
08/15/17
Promote Free Summer Meals in NYC
07/14/17
July Blog Post: We, the People.
06/27/17
Testimony of Joel Berg, CEO, Hunger Free America Hearing Before The New York City Council Committee on Committee on General Welfare
06/27/17
Testimony of Maggie Andreoni, Research, Policy and Advocacy Associate at Hunger Free America
06/23/17
Backgrounder: Congressional Health Proposal Would Increase U.S. Hunger
06/16/17
National Anti-Hunger Leader to Visit Broken Arrow To Promote Summer Meals for OK Kids
06/13/17
WNBA General Manager, Star Player, Former SNAP Recipient Ruth Riley Joins Hunger Free America Board 
06/28/17
Summer Meals Outreach in Upper Manhattan 6/28 1:00-3:00PM
06/26/17
Summer Meals Outreach in the South Bronx 6/26 1:30-4:30PM
06/06/17
Pride Highlights Work Left to Be Done For LGBT Food Access
05/31/17
Anti-Hunger and Opportunity Corps Blog Post May 2017
05/25/17
Advocates to H.U.D. Secretary Ben Carson: “Poverty a State of Economics, Not of Mind”
05/22/17
New Budget Announced: Trump Budget to Take Hundreds of Billions of Dollars of Food Away from Hungry Americans, Despite Assurances of AG Secretary to Contrary
05/15/17
Older Americans Month 2017, Focus on Senior Hunger
04/26/17
Hearing Before The New York City Council Committee on Aging and Subcommittee on Senior Centers
03/15/17
Testimony of Joel Berg, Hearing Before The New York City Council Immigration Committee
04/01/17
GOP Proposes Liberating Poor Americans from Oppression of Eating
03/28/17
New Trump Budget Proposal Would Immediately Cut Food Pantries, Soup Kitchens, and Homelessness-Prevention Efforts
03/20/17
Work Requirements for Medicaid “Immoral and Unworkable,” Say Advocates
03/16/17
OMB Director Mick Mulvaney Claims No Evidence After-School Feeding Programs Work
03/16/17
Trumps Budget Proposal Response by Hunger Free America
01/20/17
Fact Check: Trump Poverty and Welfare Statements in Inaugural Address
01/15/17
2017 MLK Anti-Hunger Weekend of Service Press Conference
01/11/17
16th Annual MLK Weekend of Service Volunteer Opportunities!
01/11/17
Houston Press Conference: 70 National Service Participants From Across the Country to Serve at Houston Anti-Hunger Programs
12/13/16
Thought Leaders Across Sectors Joined to Support Innovative HOPE Proposal on Using Technology to Reduce Poverty
12/12/16
Media Advisory- Thought Leaders Across Sectors Join to Discuss HOPE: Technology to Reduce Poverty
12/13/16
Fighting Poverty with HOPE: A Discussion on Reinventing and Modernizing the Social Safety Net
11/18/16
Annual Hunger Survey Press Events
11/18/16
Trump-Voting States Most Utilize SNAP (Food Stamps)
11/09/16
Connect eligible families to SNAP benefits.
10/20/16
Aftershocks of Hurricane Matthew: Hunger Still Rampant in Nation’s South
09/19/16
Is the Sun Shining In Puerto Rico?
09/15/16
NEW FEDERAL DATA: POVERTY FINALLY DIPS IN NEW YORK CITY
09/13/16
Statement on Increasing U.S. Income and Decreasing Poverty
09/13/16
Teens Across US Economically Forced Into Exchanging Sex Work for Food
09/07/16
New Federal Data: U.S. Hunger Dips But Still Far Higher Than Pre-Recession
08/26/16
Federal and Charitable Food Relief for Flood Victims Available
08/17/16
Chefs Who Won’t Just Shut Up and Cook
08/15/16
Kids win game tickets for getting free healthy meals
07/18/16
Hunger Crisis in Maine Prompts National Attention
06/28/16
Summer Meals Barrier Analysis Report 2016
06/07/16
Advocates Decry Ryan’s “Policy Bait and Switch” On Poverty
05/02/16
Why House G.O.P. Bill Would Increase Hunger, Obesity, and Bureaucracy
04/22/16
Advocates Call on Presidential Candidates to Renounce House G.O.P. Effort to Increase Child Hunger and Obesity
04/21/16
G.O.P. Bill: “More Child Hunger and Obesity,” Say Advocates
04/01/16
Released April 1st: Thoughtful, Reflective Trump Sincerely Apologizes to Poor People and Immigrants
04/01/16
NY Wage Hike: "Medicine to Stem Epidemic of Working Hungry"
03/18/16
Hunger Free America Advocates to End Food Deserts
01/29/16
New York City Coalition Against Hunger Changes Name to Hunger Free America
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