WORT 89.9FM Madison · Food Pantries Struggle To Keep Up With Demand The Dane County area has long had a reputation as having a generous welfare safety net, particularly when […]
Reinventing Food Banks
Food banks have been an important tool in addressing food insecurity during the pandemic, but they alone aren’t enough to solve the problem—to do that, we need to focus on […]
Food Insecurity During the Pandemic
An estimated 13.7 million U.S. households were food insecure last year—and this number has only grown during the pandemic, with nearly 1 in 4 households experiencing food insecurity in 2020. […]
U.N. World Food Program Wins Nobel Peace Prize
On October 9th, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize to the United Nations World Food Program (or WFP), marking the 28th time the Nobel committee has […]
Wisconsin Making It Difficult to Qualify for Food Assistance
Sources as diverse as Moody’s investment service and the Congressional Budget Office have rated the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — formerly known as Food Stamps — as one of […]
Famine Declared in South Sudan
Last week the United Nations declared a famine in parts of South Sudan – the first declaration of famine in six years. The UN says that famine is a technical […]
