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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Food stamps. It’s a small element of the election this year. I would appreciate MORE talk about hunger issues in America, but right now it seems like other issues are front and center. When you are hungry, when your child is hungry, NOTHING else matters. I want to make sure conversations about SNAP benefits/ Food [...]
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When we spotlight an issue together amazing things can happen. We can raise awareness, inspire productivity, and help a lot of families. If you participated in Hunger Action month this September you should know that you ABSOLUTELY made a difference. But just because it is the end of an “awareness month” does not mean that [...]
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I’m going orange for Hunger Action month. Orange is said to be a happy color filled with enthusiasm and joy. It is also meant to be a color that can stimulate and increase your appetite. So now let’s talk about hunger. But beyond that, let’s talk about how YOU can get involved this month. The [...]
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Please join me tomorrow afternoon for a twitter conversation about Hunger in America. Feeding America will be hosting the panel that will include myself, Lisa Sherrill, Community Relations Manager, Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano, and Clay Dunn, Online Community Director at Share Our Strength No Kid Hungry. We will be talking about big [...]
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This post about government assistance was originally published on EwokMama.com and is being shared here with the author’s permission. I grew up poor. For much of my early childhood we were at poverty level. My parents split when I was four, so my mother – age 22 at the time – was left with three [...]
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The last year has been a roller coaster. And a financial nightmare. Jobs have been lost. Homes have been lost. Pride has been lost. We have begged for extensions, scrounged for gas money, had to learn to accept help like never before. And now we are navigating the waters of public welfare assistance. I signed [...]
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If I have learned one thing about politics from my years of watching The West Wing it is that things in Washington are messy. If someone had asked me, “what do you think about the farm bill?” I would have shrugged and said, “um…I don’t farm.” Except the Farm Bill is more complicated. Somehow, attached [...]
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