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Elon Musk Tweets He Is Willing to Spend $6 Billion to Fight World Hunger—on One Condition
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.
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Biden Expanding Summer Food Program for 34M Schoolchildren
The Biden administration is expanding a program to feed up to 34 million schoolchildren during the summer months
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The Third Round of Stimulus Checks Helped, But Millions of Americans Are Still Struggling
While the number of Americans going hungry and unable to pay their bills fell last month, new data shows that millions are still struggling.
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Congress Extends SNAP Benefits, Provides for Additional Food Assistance
Congress approved major food assistance initiatives in the latest Covid-19 relief package signed Thursday by President Biden, including extending SNAP benefits.
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Biden Moving Forward With Additional Food Assistance Ahead of Stimulus
President Joe Biden signed an executive order that will help restaurants partner to provide food assistance.
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Covid-19 Hometown Heroes: A Look at the People Who Made a Dramatic Difference This Past Year
CNBC readers offer their hometown pandemic heroes. From vaccine distribution to food insecurity, these local leaders met the crisis with courage and compassion.
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Lawmakers Allocate $13 Billion to Food Assistance Programs in an Effort to Alleviate Hunger Crisis
Lawmakers agreed to a $900 billion coronavirus relief package on Sunday, which includes $13 billion in funding to support food assistance programs.
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Funding for Food Assistance Programs ‘Holding Up' Relief Package Talks
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.
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More People Are Going Hungry Than Ever Before. Inside the Efforts to Help
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...
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The U.S. Is Facing ‘Unprecedented' Levels of Child Hunger—and It Could Get Worse This Winter
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.
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6 Tips for Surviving Without More Stimulus
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.
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Covid-19 Pandemic Is the First Time 40% of Americans Have Experienced Food Insecurity
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.
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Project to Provide Food to All Makes Its Way From NYC to the Bay Area
An idea that started in New York City to fight hunger has now made its way to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland and soon San Jose.
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Millions of Americans Going Hungry as Pandemic Erodes Incomes
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.
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Virus Pushes Millions Into Hunger; UN Seeks More Food Funds
Millions of people have been pushed into hunger by the new coronavirus, said the United Nations World Food Program.
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UN Warns of ‘Hunger Pandemic' Amid Threats of Coronavirus, Economic Downturn
While the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, the head of the United Nations food agency warned on Tuesday that a looming “hunger pandemic” will bring “the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II.”