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January

  • If You Bake It, Can You Sell It? A ‘Right to Food’ Movement Grows.

    Jan 31, 2022

    Center director Mariana Chilton was quoted in an article about Maine's recent "right to food" amendment which states “natural, inherent and unalienable right” to produce, consume, and perhaps sell food they grew or raised, a concept central to food sovereignty. While she felt the vote was a good first step, she pointed out that deregulation does not go far enough to ensure people will be free from hunger or food insecurity.

    “People who are poor don’t have the time, they don’t have the land, they don’t have the private property in which they can grow their own stuff,” says Dr. Chilton. “I think that we need more provisions that ensure the conditions in which everyone has access to food, and that would be about ensuring the appropriate economic conditions.”

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  • Money given to low-income mothers affects their infants’ brain activity, a study shows

    Jan 26, 2022

    Center director Mariana Chilton was quoted in an article about a new study looking at the impact on infant brain activity after their mothers were given infusions of cash that made life easier. The study comes at a time when the federal government’s expansion of the child tax credit (CTC), which kept millions of families out of poverty, has expired with Congress showing little interest in allowing it to continue.

    “How many millions of dollars of research does it take to prove the obvious — that parents of young children need time and financial supports to help their children grow and flourish? Do we really need expensive brain scans to tell us what to do?”

     

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  • Fighting Hunger and Racial Injustice on this Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Every Day

    Jan 17, 2022

    The Center's research on hunger and discrimination was cited in a letter to the editor from the head of the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank discussing the need to address racial injustice in order to address hunger, food insecurity, and poverty and the goals of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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  • Community Fridges Rose From the Pandemic to Address Hunger in Philly

    Jan 15, 2022

    Center director Mariana Chilton was quoted in an article about Philadelphia's community fridges. She notes that mutual aid approaches offer an alternative to stigma and discrimination-filled public assistance programs such as SNAP.

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  • Letter to the Editor: Racial Injustice and Hunger

    Jan 13, 2022

    The Center's research on hunger and discrimination was cited in a letter to the editor from the head of the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank discussing the need to address racial injustice in order to address hunger, food insecurity, and poverty and the goals of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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  • New Guaranteed Income Experiments Give Away Hundreds of Dollars Each Month to Address Wealth Gap

    Jan 12, 2022

    The Center for Hunger-Free Communities' recent policy brief on universal basic income, or UBI, was referenced in an article looking at guaranteed income programs receiving increased attention in recent years as a way to curb economic inequality in the U.S.

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  • Biden's child tax credit is withdrawn, causing anger and concern

    Jan 09, 2022

    The one-year expansion on the child tax credit expired in December, leaving millions of families to struggle to stay out of poverty yet again. Center Director Mariana Chilton weighed in on the lapse.

    “Allowing the expanded child tax credit to expire is yet another demonstration of the U.S. government’s intentional neglect of families with children, a clear example of legislative violence.” Chilton espouses universal basic income, a proposed government program in which every adult citizen receives a set amount of money regularly.

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