The recent Map the Meal report is a call to action. How could it be that in a country with such wealth that so many of our neighbors are struggling to put food in the table. Here are two suggestions: first we all need to talk about this problem (because if people don’t know how much hunger there is, we can move the needle on this problem. Second - policies MUST change. We need action at the federal, states and local levels to help people by lifting them up support so that they can rise above these struggles. What other innovative ideas do you have ? #endhunger Feeding America @FeedingNewYorkState Island Harvest Food Bank
Feeding America released its updated “Map the Meal Gap” report to include data from 2022. The news is not good; on Long Island there was a 58.3% jump in food insecurity overall and a 63.4% jump in food insecurity among children from 2021. Island Harvest Food Bank and Long Island Cares, Inc | The Harry Chapin Food Bank were featured in the Long Island Business News discussing the report and its implications. The whole thing is worth a read, but let’s start at the end: “Feeding America’s ‘Map the Meal Gap’ isn’t just a study, it’s a call to action,” Randi Shubin Dresner said. Everyone from the federal government to New York State to Nassau and Suffolk counties, along with Island Harvest and Long Island Cares, must do more to close the meal gap and ensure no one living on Long Island lives with the trauma of food insecurity.” https://lnkd.in/eu4Rrhy7
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