Overview: 2022 Fiscal Year Budget for the Department of Public Health
Gov. Brian Kemp proposed a 2022 budget of $269.8 million in state general funds for the Department of Public Health (DPH). The agency is also set to receive $13.7 million from a tobacco industry legal settlement and $1.4 million from the Brain and Spinal Injury Trust Fund. In addition to these state funds, the proposed budget includes $396 million in federal funds. About 57 percent of the agency’s total budget comes from the federal government through programs such as Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), the Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Block Grant (TANF).
This brings forward every single resource from the government to help address this national hunger, says Monica Gonzales, director of federal advocacy at No Kid Hungry. By passing the executive order, Gonzales says that it means nonprofits, restaurants and local communities don t have to wait to see if the program would languish in legislative limbo. This is done, this is available.
Almost 24 million Americans, about 11%, are sometimes or often not getting enough to eat during the week, according to the latest Census Bureau survey fielded in mid-January. That s a significant increase from pre-pandemic analysis that estimated about 8.5 million Americans went hungry at some point in 2019, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Report finds toxic heavy metals in popular baby foods. FDA failed to warn consumers of risk.
Laura Reiley, The Washington Post
Feb. 4, 2021
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A congressional report found many of the products made by the country s largest commercial baby food manufacturers contain significant levels of toxic heavy metals, including arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury, which can endanger infant neurological development.LOIC VENANCE/AFP/Getty Images
WASHINGTON - A congressional report found many of the products made by the country s largest commercial baby food manufacturers contain significant levels of toxic heavy metals, including arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury, which can endanger infant neurological development.
February 4, 2021
WASHINGTON – A congressional report found many of the products made by the country’s largest commercial baby food manufacturers contain significant levels of toxic heavy metals, including arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury, which can endanger infant neurological development.
The report released Thursday from the House Oversight Committee’s subcommittee on economic and consumer policy found heavy metals in rice cereals, sweet potato puree, juices and sweet snack puffs made by some of the most trusted names in baby food.
Gerber, Beech-Nut, HappyBABY (made by Nurture) and Earth’s Best Organic baby foods (made by Hain Celestial Group) complied with the committee’s request to submit internal testing documents.
The former (and likely future) Secretary of Agriculture faced few tough inquiries.
Former Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on Tuesday morning faced questions from the Senate Agriculture Committee during his confirmation hearing to reprise the role under President Biden. Despite serious concerns about his past tenure, he is expected to be confirmed with broad bipartisan support. The committee agreed to skip its usual 48-hour waiting period between the hearing and the vote, unanimously advancing Vilsack’s nomination on Tuesday afternoon. Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York has pledged a quick vote on the Senate floor.
President Obama’s former ag secretary was not asked a single question during Tuesday’s hearing about his agency’s troubling mismanagement of civil rights complaints during his long tenure.