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Dec 22, 2020 Five hundred pounds of donated pork is preserved in a freezer at Enduring Freedom Ministries in Shumway. The donated pork was made possible by Farmweld of Teutopolis through the Illinois Pork Producers Association Pork Power program. The pork was processed, packaged and delivered by Kirby Foods IGA of Effingham. From left are Farmweld Production Manager Jonathan Wakefield, Enduring Freedom Ministries Director Vickie Kight and longtime EFM volunteer Gary Painter of Effingham.Charles Mills | Daily News Three local food pantries received boxes of one-pound bags of ground pork thanks...

Coping With Rent Burden The rent eats first, they say. But how do people survive when the rent also eats almost everything? December 23, 2020, 9am PST | James Brasuell | Researchers at the University of Southern California Price Center for Social Innovation recently published the results of a massive survey of Los Angeles-area renters to gather data on the effects of the region's housing affordability crisis. The "How do Renters Cope with Unaffordability?" report was led by Jovanna Rosen, Sean Angst, Soledad De Gregorio, and Gary Painter, who spent 2019 conducting surveys in Spanish and ...

By City News Service Dec 15, 2020 LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A new study from the USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation finds a majority of renters surveyed in Los Angeles have cut back on critical basic needs like food, and nearly half took on additional debt in order to afford rent over the past two years, it was announced today. The study documents the deep economic vulnerability of many city residents even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Three out of four households surveyed were rent burdened, meaning they spent over 30% of household income on rent and utilities. Nearly half of renters su...