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A bill to help individuals with drug-related felony convictions keep food on the table cleared committee on Wednesday, taking its first step toward becoming law. 

The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe to Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? As autumn fades and winter looms, the dire predictions public health experts made about Covid-19 have, unfortunately, proven all too accurate. On October 27, 74,379 people were infected in the United Stat...

54 million Americans, including 18 million children, to be food insecure by the end of 2020, according to Feeding America insider@insider.com (Naina Bhardwaj) © Zack Wittman for The Washington Post via Getty Images Kitchen staff at Trinity Cafe in Tampa, Florida prepare meatloaf, potatoes and steamed vegetables to be distributed by Feeding America at on March 27, 2019. Zack Wittman for The Washington Post via Getty Images 54 million or one in six Americans are projected to be...

54 million Americans, including 18 million children, to be food insecure by the end of 2020, according to Feeding America insider@insider.com (Naina Bhardwaj) © Zack Wittman for The Washington Post via Getty Images Kitchen staff at Trinity Cafe in Tampa, Florida prepare meatloaf, potatoes and steamed vegetables to be distributed by Feeding America at on March 27, 2019. Zack Wittman for The Washington Post via Getty Images 54 million or one in six Americans are projected to be...

Zack Wittman for The Washington Post via Getty Images 50 million or one in six Americans are projected to be food insecure by the end of the year, according to an analysis by Feeding America, the largest anti-hunger organization in the US. The organization distributed 4.2 billion meals between March and October, with around 20% of its 200 food banks across the country in danger of running out of supplies, AP reported. Almost 26 million people, or one in eight Ame...

Hunger in America December 17, 2020 In society at large, precautions – lockdowns, social distancing, limits on festive gatherings – necessary to keep Covid-19 at bay have increased loneliness and social isolation. Contrary to early expectations, reports of abuse and violence within families haven’t actually spiraled, but experts suggest that may be because the victims, confined to their homes alongside their tormentors, are finding it harder to seek help and fear reporting whats happeni...

NationofChange Image Credit: TYGER WILLIAMS/The Philadelphia Inquirer As autumn fades and winter looms, the dire predictions public-health experts made about Covid-19 have, unfortunately, proven all-too-accurate. On October 27th, 74,379 people were infected in the United States; less than a month and a half later, on December 9th, that number had soared to 218,677, while the 2020 total has just surpassed 15 million, a number no other country, not even India, which has a populati...

54 Million Americans Are Projected to Be Food Insecure by End of Year Volunteers load free groceries into cars for people experiencing food insecurity due to the coronavirus pandemic, on December 1, 2020, in Los Angeles, California. Robyn Beck / AFP via Getty Images By As autumn fades and winter looms, the dire predictions public-health experts made about Covid-19 have, unfortunately, proven all-too-accurate. On October 27th, 74,379 people were infected in the United States; less than a month ...