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End the Collective Punishment of Afghans  

End the Collective Punishment of Afghans  

| Aug 24, 2022 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityA year has now passed since the tumultuous U.S. withdrawal from decades of war and occupation in Afghanistan. With the Taliban functionally in charge, the country faces a deteriorating humanitarian crisis and economic collapse. But instead of taking action to promote...
Why Do We Have School Lunch Debt at All?

Why Do We Have School Lunch Debt at All?

| Jan 15, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyA Google search for “paying school lunch debt” reveals a long list of recent news stories about good Samaritans paying off the school lunch debt of children whose families cannot afford it. A Fredonia, New York man paid off $2,000 in school lunch debt in...
Cutting Food Aid Promotes Hunger, Not Work

Cutting Food Aid Promotes Hunger, Not Work

| Dec 9, 2019 | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|Rights / DemocracyYou may have heard about the Trump administration’s latest attack on very poor Americans: a punitive new restriction that will cut SNAP benefits for 688,000 people. SNAP, formerly known as food stamps, is our country’s most popular and effective nutrition assistance...
Cutting Food Aid Promotes Hunger, Not Work

Starving Kids Won’t Help Them Study

| Feb 27, 2019 | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyAn Arkansas lawmaker wants to cut school lunch funding for schools that fail to improve their students’ reading levels. I’m sorry, what? I think I understand the logic behind such a proposal. I just strongly disagree with it. It’s cruel, but even more than that, it’s...
Other Countries Expect More of Their Leaders. So Should We.

Other Countries Expect More of Their Leaders. So Should We.

| Jun 13, 2018 | Rights / DemocracyAre we Americans unworthy? That’s certainly the message we’re getting from our government. Over 40 percent of us are poor or low-income. How is that possible in the wealthiest country in history? “The United States is alone among developed countries in insisting that...
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