Posts Tagged: hungry

Opinion

Uniform expiration date language can help feed California’s hungry

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OPINION – At the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, which serves the most populous county in the country, we help feed millions of people living in LA County who face food insecurity. Yet up to 40 percent of the food our nation grows never reaches anyone’s table.

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News

Dolores Huerta , a civil rights legend, continues the fight

Dolores Huerta spoke Tuesday at a meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. (Photo: Julia Kikhinson, AP)

At age 92, civil rights icon Dolores Huerta maintains a busy schedule supporting the causes she has worked for her whole life. She speaks regularly all over the state, recently participated in a re-creation of the famed 1966 farm workers march from Delano to Sacramento, and is campaigning for Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke.

Opinion

Hunger and the ‘public charge’ rule

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OPINION: Blanca was seven months pregnant when her husband’s sciatica rendered him unable to work. The pain in his back was so intense he couldn’t stand upright. They had no medical insurance and could not qualify for unemployment or disability. For months they survived off savings until there was nothing left. Their food budget dwindled to $2, “maybe $3, or sometimes nothing at all,”

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