food insecurity

Increasing costs and supply shortages are impacting communities in Massachusetts.

A program that has helped food-insecure Vermonters access nutritious meals, while directing revenues to local restaurants, has been extended through the end of 2021. Vermont Everyone Eats operates in each of the state’s 14 counties, and announced the extension on its website. FEMA is currently covering chef-made meals $10 at a time, with the concept addressing people’s food needs and…

When schools in Massachusetts and across the country shut down in March 2020, one of the biggest concerns was figuring out how to feed children who might otherwise go hungry. “So many families during normal times face food insecurity, and it really became even more so during the pandemic,” said David Semenza, the nutrition services director of Fitchburg Public Schools….

When schools closed due to COVID-19, some of the most essential employees were cafeteria workers who never stopped churning out food for families in need.

A project in Burlington, Vermont, is using art to uplift a hard-working charity, while helping that nonprofit with a job its own tight budget wouldn’t otherwise have had room for. “It’s popping out now,” said Midhat Hadzic of Feeding Chittenden, Vermont’s largest provider of direct emergency food support, referring to how the nonprofit’s formerly drab and gray building is...

Advocates in Vermont are promising to keep the pressure on policymakers, with a goal of sharply reducing and eventually ending hunger in the communities they serve. The issue came into sharp focus at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it remains a problem for many people. Chereyl Raffuse, who was getting food Thursday from the Upper Valley Haven in…

When the coronavirus pandemic hit and schools shut down, in-person learning wasn’t the only thing children were missing out on. Many families in Massachusetts and across the nation relied on school breakfasts and lunches to keep their kids from going hungry. “The pandemic occurred abruptly, we had to pivot abruptly into numerous different feeding systems based on USDA waivers,”...

For many children, lunch at school is not a luxury, but a need, so during the pandemic, the YMCA of Central Massachusetts stepped up to help.

The Agriculture Department told NBC News that the Biden administration is poised to announce the largest summer food program in U.S. history, which will feed 30 million low-income children.

At the beginning of the pandemic, as grocery store shelved emptied of essentials, many people in the U.S. got a taste of a world where food isn’t easy to come by. But as climate change threatens the planet, experts say mass food shortages are a real danger. That’s why people like Elizabeth Medgyesy of California’s Sonoma County are turning to...

Javier Albarran had worked in a hotel kitchen for more than 25 years when he lost his job last March due to the pandemic. Finding himself without insurance or the income he needed to get by, he said, “I didn’t know what to do.” When a friend asked him to take him to a food bank, Albarran overcame his embarrassment...

A campaign tied to the Tuesday debut of Michelle Obama’s children’s food show is aiming to provide more than one million meals to food insecure communities

A local company is working to cut the greenhouse gas emissions associated with food production.

When Luisa Flores of Dallas, Texas, lost her father to COVID-19, it sparked a chain of events that drained her family’s savings and has left them reliant on food banks to eat. Her story is just one example of how the pandemic has devastated families and led to a spike in food insecurity across the country.

President Biden has directed the USDA to bolster the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. Luis Guardia, president of the Food Research and Action Center, joined LX News to explain why boosting SNAP is especially important to Black and Latino communities — which are disproportionately affected by hunger just as they are affected by COVID-19 at higher rates.

‘Honestly, I didn’t want to let my children down. And I was really scared because obviously I have five people to take care of. Honestly, I didn’t know what I was going to do.’

No child should be going hungry in the United States. But the number of children facing hunger in this country has shot up to 17 million since the pandemic started. Eleni Towns of No Kid Hungry joined LX News to discuss the long-term impact of this crisis and share how you can help.

Eating meat is not a sustainable way to keep feeding the growing population of the world. Some think insects are the answer. To produce the same amount of protein as cattle, crickets need about 12 times less feed. So, would you eat an insect diet to save the planet and stop world hunger? Yusuf Omar of Hashtag Our Stories joined...

Edward Willis and Paulina Lopez have four children between the ages of 1 and 8. When they lost their income due to the pandemic, they faced themselves in a desperate struggle to make sure their children had food to eat and a place to sleep each day. The Los Angeles County couple shared their emotional journey through food and housing...

Organizing a meal train, or simply surprising a neighbor with a favorite dish, are just a couple of ways you can help those in need.