Hunger

New York City’s largest food rescue organization gathered upwards of 100,000 pounds of specialty items from this year’s Summer Fancy Food Show and delivered the goods to dozens of food pantries and soup kitchens across all five boroughs. City Harvest joined forces with the not-for-profit Specialty Food Association, a trade association founded in 1952 that represents nearly 4,000 businesses.  The…

New York City’s largest food rescue organization gathered upwards of 50,000 pounds of specialty items from this year’s Summer Fancy Food Show and delivered the goods to dozens of food pantries and soup kitchens across all five boroughs. NBC New York’s Linda Gaudino reports.

The Food Bank for NYC is working to ensure food-insecure New Yorkers don’t go hungry during the holiday season. Romney Smith reports.

Elon Musk tweeted he would sell Tesla stock to fight world hunger — if the the head of the UN’s World Food Programme could publish a detailed spending proposal.

The Biden administration is expanding a program to feed up to 34 million schoolchildren during the summer months

While the number of Americans going hungry and unable to pay their bills fell last month, new data shows that millions are still struggling. 

Congress approved major food assistance initiatives in the latest Covid-19 relief package signed Thursday by President Biden, including extending SNAP benefits.

The pandemic has created a hunger crisis that has only intensified over the past year. In New Jersey, one girl’s call for help put a face to the crisis — and inspired a wave of giving to a local food bank.NBC New York’s Pat Battle reports.

It was a desperate cry for help from a 9-year-old girl in a virtual classroom who was hungry and hurting — and now a local food bank has gotten a wave of donations from strangers who just want to help

President Joe Biden signed an executive order that will help restaurants partner to provide food assistance.

CNBC readers offer their hometown pandemic heroes. From vaccine distribution to food insecurity, these local leaders met the crisis with courage and compassion.

Lawmakers agreed to a $900 billion coronavirus relief package on Sunday, which includes $13 billion in funding to support food assistance programs.

With over 1 in 10 Americans going without enough to eat, the $13 billion lawmakers initially allocated for food assistance can’t come soon enough. 

As the coronavirus pandemic stretches on, more people than ever are going hungry — but across the country, volunteers are stepping up to help. Before the pandemic, more than 35 million people in the U.S. struggled with hunger, according to Feeding America. But now, with millions of Americans unemployed and a second relief check uncertain, the non-profit estimates that more than 50 million people...

Feeding America estimates that 17 million children could go without enough to eat this year, and advocates say that hunger could get worse during winter.

With negotiations for a new legislative relief package coming down to the wire, it may be worth considering how to stretch your budget without federal help.

4 in 10 Americans say the Covid-19 pandemic was the first time they experiencedfood insecurity, and a majority struggled to get the help they needed.

As jobs vanish, incomes drop and food prices rise, more Americans are going to bed hungry — and advocates warn that without intervention from Congress, those numbers could rise to a level unseen in modern times.

Millions of people have been pushed into hunger by the new coronavirus, said the United Nations World Food Program.

This pandemic has created a hunger crisis that the world has not seen in decades. So many families are depending on food banks, but food banks are running low on supplies and donations are drying up. Stefan Holt reports.