Mission readiness, recruitment, retention all risked by hunger
Massive defense budget still leaves some short of assistance May 20, 2021 5:01 AM By Megan U. Boyanton
The coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated hunger among military families, adding to pressure on bipartisan lawmakers to grant them more federal nutrition assistance.
Democratic and Republican supporters on the Hill have pushed their colleagues for years to help hungry Americans in uniform, pointing to food insecurity as a risk to mission readiness, recruitment, and retention. In spite of the countryâs $700 billion-plus defense budget, low-income troops and their families can get barred from some government food aid, relying on
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Good news: More grocery money for hungry children
March 16, 2021
By Todd Post
Older generations are the only Americans who can remember when, in the late 1960s, searing reports of child hunger were making headlines. The conditions in places seldom filmed by news crews were shocking. Senator Robert F. Kennedy found young children in the Mississippi Delta who were suffering from malnutrition as severe as that of children in countries where most families had few resources and harvest failures meant hunger for many people. But the United States could afford to feed its children.
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