Hunger Grows in a SNAP
Food stamp cuts are sending more New Yorkers to pantries and soup kitchens, advocates for the needy say.
Tag: hunger
via The West Side Spirit
Food Pantry Lines Grow
Demand at the Antioch Church of God in Christ's food bank is on the rise.
via The Jewish Daily Forward
Food Stamp Cut Fears Grow
Daniel Sayani chose to live on the average food stamp benefit of $31.50 for a week, joining activists around the country as part of the Jewish Community Food Stamp Challenge.
via Our Town Downtown
Mission Takes on New Urgency
The New York City Rescue Mission, which lost power during Sandy, quickly bounced back to help serve the hungry and homeless in Lower Manhattan.
via Mott Haven Herald
Food Pantries Strained by Cuts
The food pantry at St. Peter in the Bronx Lutheran Church is one of many in the neighborhood struggling to serve the community’s hungry amid state and federal budget reductions.
Pantry Helps Hungry Help Others
The West Side Campaign Against Hunger food pantry uses a customer-cooperative model under which clients volunteer to help run the supermarket-style operation.
via City Limits
Battling Hunger in Brooklyn
With food pantries and soup kitchens facing big increases in demand, our reporters fanned out across the borough on a recent afternoon to talk with the needy and those struggling to serve them.
via Chelsea Now
Less Help For the Hungry in Chelsea
In a sad sign of the times, the food pantry at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church has cut back services to the needy.