Education, Health Care, Maine’s Economy Will Congress leave poor Maine kids hungrier and less ready to learn? Just when you thought Congress has finally gotten something right, they disappoint once again. I am talking about the national school meal programs. Congress assumed correctly that […] Jody Harris Posted April 28, 2016 Tags Children, Education, Food Insecurity
Jobs and Income, Maine’s Economy Thousands of Maine’s Poorest Residents Are Left to Go Hungry In Maine, some of our poorest neighbors have lost a critical tool to help them get enough to eat each day. In 1996, Congress dictated that able-bodied […] Jody Harris Posted April 1, 2016 Tags Children, Food Insecurity, Poverty, SNAP
Maine’s Economy Is DHHS SNAP mismanagement putting Maine families at risk of hunger? In a blistering editorial published in today’s Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, and Central Maine Morning Sentinel, MaineToday Media condemned the Maine Department of Health and Human […] Mark Sullivan Posted December 15, 2015 Tags Food Insecurity, SNAP
Jobs and Income, Maine’s Economy USDA reports progress on child hunger, but still a long way to go to eradicate food insecurity for all Mainers and all Americans Congress is currently deliberating over reauthorization of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, which is crucial to protect school kids in Maine where the child food insecurity rate […] Mark Sullivan Posted October 28, 2015 Tags Children, Food Insecurity, Poverty
Jobs and Income, Maine’s Economy Mainers’ food security depends upon a stronger, improved SNAP Over the course of one year, nearly 1 in 5 Mainers will rely on the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to put food on the table. […] Marpheen Chann-Berry Posted August 10, 2015 Tags Children, Food Insecurity, SNAP
Maine’s Economy Testimony before the National Commission on Hunger “Maine is the most food insecure state in New England. Five percent of seniors and nearly one in four children are food insecure in Maine. In 2013, […] Christy Daggett Posted July 30, 2015 Tags Food Insecurity
Maine’s Economy Testimony in Favor of LD 933 – An Act to Implement the Recommendations of the Task Force To End Student Hunger in Maine The Maine Center for Economic Policy particularly supports the community eligibility working group. This community eligibility program allows high-poverty schools to offer nutritious breakfasts and lunches to […] Jody Harris Posted May 5, 2015 Tags Food Insecurity
Maine’s Economy Testimony in Support of LD 380, Resolve, To Establish a Working Group to Aid with the End of Student Hunger “School is hard enough without having to suffer the maladies that hunger causes. The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) of the federal Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 […] Mark Sullivan Posted March 19, 2015 Tags Children, Food Insecurity
Education A paperwork obstacle is denying Maine kids healthy, nutritious school meals We all know that being hungry can make us irritable, tired, and addled. We only have to watch the recent Snickers™ television commercials to appreciate we are […] Jody Harris Posted March 19, 2015 Tags Children, Education, Food Insecurity
Jobs and Income LePage Proposal Will Exacerbate Maine’s Hunger Crisis The facts are shocking. In the U.S. today, 1 in 7 Americans―more than 46 million people, including 12 million children and 7 million seniors―rely on food pantries […] Jody Harris Posted August 19, 2014 Tags Food Insecurity, SNAP