Mapping empty food banks and billionaires: “When people have nothing to eat, they will eat the rich”

Food banks struggle with rising food costs and surging diesel prices needed to deliver it. -  Hunger Report 

Republicans gave $117 billion in tax cuts to their billionaires. -  ITEP 

Food security nationally is “deteriorating,” with surveyed families reporting they’ve cut the size of their children’s meals, gone a full day without feeding their kids, or skipped meals themselves to save money. - Hunger Report

“Eat the Rich!”: A Rallying Cry Against Income Inequality. Jean-Jacques Rousseau said in the context of the French Revolution, “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.” - UAB

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Weaponizing hunger

Susan Collins

Susan Collins heads the Senate Appropriations committee that controls funding for food banks and the IRS.

Individual food banks described specific strategies for coping with rising costs, from swapping proteins to redesigning delivery routes. In Lorain County, Ohio, Second Harvest Food Bank CEO Julie Chase-Morefield said beef prices have become so extraordinary that the organization can no longer buy truckloads of it, forcing a pivot to canned chicken and beans, while surging diesel costs are also driving up the price of fresh produce from local farmer partners during harvest season. -  Aaron Parnas 

Trump is blocking payments for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) nutrition program, which feed more than 40 million Americans. Children will go hungry in the most prosperous country on Earth. -  Dan Pfeiffer

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