These posts are written by real people that have real perspective on what it is or was like to need public assistance.
If you would like to submit a guest post please let me know.
The first post in this series is, perhaps, the most important: Food Stamp Etiquette
{Please read these posts with a kind and loving heart.}
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If you follow me on Twitter you have probably seen my recent musings about Below the Line. I wrote about it on Babble last week when it was announced that Ben Affleck was going to lend his star power to this poverty awareness campaign. I am participating in Below the Line’s challenge with other women [...]
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Can watching one movie change the world? The creators of A Place at the Table think so. It’s difficult to create a film about the hunger crisis that includes scary statistics about nutrition and obesity and make it motivational and compelling. Earlier this week when filmmakers, Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush appeared on Jon Stewart’s Daily [...]
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When my family was on food stamps we were lucky. We were able to use that benefit to put food in our pantry and feed ourselves. However food stamps are, quite obviously, just for food. So all of the other items that a family might stock up on at the grocery store are not covered. [...]
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Thank you to everyone who checked out information from Feeding America about how to be involved in stopping hunger in America. If you haven’t checked out the number of people in your state struggling with hunger I encourage you to investigate. Seeing the number will shock you. The good news is that together we can [...]
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1,850,140. That is how many people are currently struggling with hunger in my state. Where do you live? Do you know how many of your neighbors are hungry? It’s THOUSANDS. And it is overwhelming. You want to help. You want to be in involved. But how? Feeding America has started a month-long campaign. Every week [...]
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When my family was on public assistance we often ate breakfast for supper, but seldom ate breakfast for breakfast. I actually skipped it most mornings in an effort to make the items in our pantry stretch, and most especially so that W would always, always, always have food. Now breakfast is our favorite meal of [...]
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According to the amazing ‘Map the Gap’ resource on Feeding America’s site, 13.5% of the residents of New Jersey are considered “Food Insecure”. This is a number that is growing to include the number of people who, as a result of Hurricane Sandy, are now homeless or have endured a great financial loss. People who [...]
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