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Join USPS letter carriers in the largest one-day food drive in America, Stamp Out Hunger, on May 13th. Help fight hunger in your community

Join USPS letter carriers in the largest one-day food drive in America, Stamp Out Hunger, on May 13th. Help fight hunger in your community

>> covid deaths and substance abuse deaths which are increasing steadily. it is what we call non-covid excess mortality. the united states, one of the highest number of covid non-access mortalities. almost no non-covid excess mortalities. these are the consequences of mental health harm. heart disease is still the number one killer in the united states and if you think about it, we are not really addressing that properly. we are still giving people the wrong information about avoiding fat when t...

Detroit dropped its mask and weekly testing mandate, making it optional last July 1 while class sizes are returning to pre-COVID levels with no social distancing. Teachers have reported that there is a greater emphasis on putting students in groups and to focus on attendance, testing and enrollment.

Available during the pandemic, universal free meals have garnered approval from schools, anti-hunger advocates, and legislators across Wisconsin who argue that breakfast and lunch — like textbooks — should be available at no cost to any K-12 student.

Unlike during other crises, overall hunger didn't worsen during the Pandemic. Effective government stimulus programs got food to kids.

Very importantly, you have inspectors embedded in every single workplace in the form of the workers who work there. they can report those violations, the lack of vaccine mandates and enforcement to osha. >> ive had it said to me by doctors and employers, it is a testing mandate. the vaccination is the way out of it. thats the way a lot of people politically are trying to watch those mandates, particularly in red states where they may be less popular. thank you for your time. any minute now we ...

Agricultural secretary tom vilsack. its national school lunch week and theyll talk about funding for the school lunch programs, thats expected to come back from the build back better plan. thats ahead, 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. still ahead, investigators are trying to figure out what caused a small plane to go down in a california neighborhood, killing two people. were live with the update. plus, puerto rico is under a state of emergency after a wave of blackouts being blamed on...

Understand whats in the contract, which amounts to tax breaks for the wealthiest, the destruction of social security. slashed in medicare and medicaid, increasing military spending and cutting back on school lunch programs for children. >> it began to generate tremendous news interest.

Premise of this whole story is we dont even know what price were going to pay for this because weve taken something for granted that theyre managing existential risks. >> tell the story about the department of agriculture? >> like the department of energy its sort of misnamed. its really the department of food or nutrition. the vast majority of the budget goes to feeding people. school lunch programs and so on and so forth. its also a giant science operation. and it distributes $3 billion a year...