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Shaky supply chain sends food donations plunging as grocery costs rise

ASHEVILLE - As the COVID-19 pandemic bore down, MANNA FoodBank CEO Hannah Randall saw firsthand a sharp rise in food insecurity, and it hasn t relented. The nonprofit and its partner agencies last March served 128,690 people in Western North Carolina, a 93% jump from February to the onset of the pandemic. For us, throughout this pandemic, we just pulled out all the stops all the time, looking for every resource we could find to make sure people had a meal at home, she said.  Now, more than a year later, the numbers have shown no signs of declining. Complicating the work to get needed food assistance to hundreds of thousands of regional clients is a supply chain that seems reluctant to stabilize.

Letter: Make WIC work better for moms

Letter: Make WIC work better for moms Published: 5/6/2021 8:00:19 AM The anthropologist Margaret Mead allegedly said that the first sign of civilization of humans was an ancient femur, a bone in the leg, which had been fractured and healed because in order to survive a broken femur the wounded would have needed others to correctly bind the injury and protect the fallen while he or she rested for at least six weeks. While the attribution of this has been contested, and the word “civilization” is vague and mired by its racist use in defense of colonialism, I think Mead’s analysis makes an insightful point. A society’s success is not just about advancement in processes and technologies for bettering and prolonging human life, but in the care it extends to those most vulnerable.

Health funding in Texas s developing FY 2022-2023 budget - State of Reform

The in-progress $246 billion Texas state budget for FY 2022-2023 contains a total of $87.2 billion in Article II funding funding for health and human services. Along with several other agencies, this includes funding for the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) ($80.2 billion) and the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) ($1.8 billion). The general fund will contribute $34.3 billion of the $87.2 billion in Article II funding for the next biennium. General fund contributions to HHSC funding is $29.5 billion, and general fund money directed to DSHS is $510.5 million.     This is a slight decrease from last biennium’s budget. In the FY 2020-2021 budget, the general fund accounted for $33.6 billion of the $84.3 billion in total allocated to Article II in FY 2020-2021.

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