NYC by the Numbers: Food Pantries and Food Insecure Households
A landscape of New York City's food environment: food insecure households going utilizing food pantries and soup kitchens.| NYC Food Policy Center (Hunter College)
A landscape of New York City's food environment: food insecure households going utilizing food pantries and soup kitchens.| NYC Food Policy Center (Hunter College)
Human Resources Adminstration's (HRA) Community Food Connection (CFC), formerly known as the Emergency Food Assistance Program (EFAP), provides funding to over 700 community kitchens and food pantries citywide. If you need food, you can get help today at one of New York City's food pantries, which provide groceries to cook at home, or community kitchens, which provide hot meals.| www.nyc.gov
Governor Hochul sounded the alarm on how the Republican budget reconciliation bill will affect the nation’s largest food assistance program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).| Governor Kathy Hochul
Amid Sky-High Grocery Prices, Trump Is Denying Food To Hungry Families New York Food Banks Receive Tens Of Millions Of Dollars’ Worth Of Food Through Now Slashed Federal Programs Today, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand held a virtual press conference slamming the Trump administration’s massive cuts to funding for food banks. Last month, President Trump slashed […]| Kirsten Gillibrand | U.S. Senator for New York
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Most New Yorkers—67%—who visit food pantries have a job, sometimes two or three, a sign that wages are not keeping up with the cost of living. Food is what’s known as an elastic expense: You can’t “cut down” on rent or hospital bills, but you can visit a food pantry to stretch your limited budget further. A household may experience food insecurity for a brief period of time (for example, while a parent is between jobs) or for much longer (for example, a senior living on a fixed in...| City Harvest
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A top nutrition advocate says the pandemic exacerbated a significant hunger crisis in the city. And a year later, it is still exacerbating it—although the federal stimulus package will deliver help.| City Limits
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