Quickly, so in case you missed this NPR story about midnight shopping at Walmart. There’s been such a spike in middle of the night, last day of the month sales, that Walmart makes sure there …

Yesterday was “Hunger Action Day” in Los Angeles as declared by Hunger Action LA, a group that works “to end hunger and promote healthy eating through community education, outreach, networking, and empowerment …

A year ago, a slough of news stories about the growing number of Californians struggling with hunger and risking foreclosures and homelessness provided the catalyst for us to start Help a Mother Out. Today, despite …

Thanksgiving weekend’s New York Times article on food stamp enrollment is a timely one. According to the article, the program is now helping to feed 1 in 8 Americans, 1 in 4 children.
Over 36 million people …

A couple of recent studies about hunger in America have put hunger issues in the spotlight.  One study in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine shows that nearly half of all U.S. children, and …

Greetings from sunny California, the breadbasket of the world.
This week the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric continued their Children of the Recession report. Most recently, they interviewed a 13 year old boy, named Lewis …