Sharon and I would like to encourage you to give to your local food bank. We were blessed that we were able to give to Roadrunner Foodbank and God’s Warehouse this week! Roadrunner serves New Mexico and God’s Warehouse is located in Albuquerque. Wherever you live, if you can, please give to your local Foodbanks! People are going hungry, as Washington D.C. is a stinking mess, D.C. stinks to HIGH HEAVEN! Politics is Satan’s playground. The Republicans and Democrats should be ashamed of themselves, they have turned hunger and unemployment into a political football! NO LEADERSHIP IN AMERICA!!!! The politicians are playing with the lives of Americans!!!
In New Mexico, 315,990 people are struggling with hunger – and of them 114,180 are children. 1 in 4 children struggles with hunger. People facing hunger in New Mexico are estimated to report needing $155,654,000 more per year to meet their food needs. Despite some improvements in several of the national 2020 KIDS COUNT Data Book indicators, New Mexico continues to rank 50th in the nation on child well–being. This is the fourth year the state has ranked at the very bottom for child well–being, having ranked 50th in 2013, 2018, and 2019. Hunger in America
NM again ranks last in child well-being
Food banks sound alarm on child hunger as pandemic drags on
One county in Massachusetts has experienced a projected 168 percent increase in child hunger since 2018.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed a $900 billion pandemic relief package, ending days of drama over his refusal to accept the bipartisan deal that will deliver……Read More
U.S. jobless benefit cut-off pushes millions to financial cliff-edge
When the U.S. Congress passed a pandemic aid bill on Monday, Meghan Meyer, a single mom from Lincoln, Nebraska, thought she would get some respite from the daily struggle to feed and house her two kids during an unprecedented health and economic crisis.
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