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Proposal for Changes in Food Aid Sets Off Infighting in Congress

Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500

WASHINGTON — A proposal by the Obama administration to overhaul the international food aid program has set off a jurisdictional fight among members of several House and Senate committees, threatening to derail the most significant change to the program since it was created nearly 60 years ago.

Religious Leaders to Government: We Must Get Our Fiscal House In Order

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500

Both Republicans and Democrats have a religion problem, and it has nothing to do with same-sex marriage, abortion, or religious liberty. Rather, their serious stumbling blocks are budgets, deficits, and debt-ceiling deadlines.

Reforming Food Aid to Improve Maternal and Child Nutrition

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500

Earlier this month, President Barack Obama proposed a budget for fiscal year 2014 that would reduce federal deficits while largely protecting programs that support hungry and poor people in the United States and around the world. The proposal is particularly encouraging because it includes important reforms to our international food aid system -- allowing greater flexibility and increasing efficiency so that food aid reaches millions more people. This is a major step forward.

Food program is cut in half

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500

When state and federal programs are cut because of sequestration or austerity, our entire society suffers.

Flake Staffer and Nogales Native Reaches Out

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500

Locals now have a direct line to the Tucson office of Sen. Jeff Flake, thanks to monthly office hours being held at Nogales City Hall.

Letter to the Editor: Food Assistance

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500

The Saturday April 6 editorial, "Food needs more thought," raises important issues of nutritional concern for our nation's youth and schools. We should be at least equally concerned that many youth have limited access to food of any kind, and that the recent sequester cuts and budget proposals will be devastating to the millions of families forced to rely on our government safety net programs for basic sustenance.

Transforming Foreign Assistance

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500

The amount of good our nation has done for poor and hungry people around the world over the last ten years is astounding. We have saved and improved millions of lives through programs like the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which was launched by former President George W. Bush to battle the disease in Africa, and the Feed the Future initiative, which President Obama started to support small farmers and the growth of local economies in developing countries.

Immigration Reform as a Way to Reduce Poverty

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500

Offering a chance to escape poverty is one of the distinguishing characteristics of the American immigration system. Over centuries, immigration has provided economic opportunity to tens of millions of impoverished families from around the world. We don’t often talk about U.S. immigration policy as a mechanism for lifting people out of poverty, but that’s what it has been to people from Galway, Ireland, to Guangzhou, China, to Guadalajara, Mexico.

Evangelicals Ramp Up Immigration Ads

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500

As part of a six-figure campaign to promote an overhaul of immigration laws, a coalition of evangelical Christian groups on Tuesday launched radio ads in Colorado, Florida, North Carolina and Texas.

Another View: Aid the Hungry this Easter

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500

A survey by the National Retail Federation says Americans will spend about $17.2 billion on Easter this year.

Imagine if that spending could be changed, just even a little bit. If $1 billion of that amount went to global hunger relief it could fund emergency humanitarian efforts in war-devastated Syria, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Mali and other countries.