Topic: Food Insecurity
A 100-Year-Old Idea for Feeding American Cities
Twenty percent of Philadelphians regularly experience hunger — in part because they live in food deserts. National urban thinkers lay out an idea we should steal for reinventing the grocery store, from Mamdani’s New York to Atlanta, Georgia
By Bruce Katz
We Don’t Lack Compassion. We Lack Connection.
When a city is in crisis, the instinct is to pull inward. That instinct, a local connector says, is the problem.
By Ted Hewson
Nutrition as New Vital Sign
The CEO of a statewide anti-hunger nonprofit makes the argument that Pennsylvania must integrate food into healthcare
By Stuart I. Haniff
Teaching Kids to Cook Is a Public Health Strategy Philadelphia Can’t Afford to Lose
The CEO of Vetri Community Partnership on what the loss of federal SNAP-Ed funding might mean — and how you can help
By Maddy Booth
Free Food at the Free Library
A longtime university president suggests the city’s library system follow Chicago and Baltimore, and add food pantries to its community services
By Elaine Maimon
How to Fight Food Insecurity in Philly
Donate peanut butter! Organize a food drive! Sort cans! Here are 15 simple things you can do now to help food insecure citizens of Philadelphia.
By Christine Speer Lejeune
Cristina Martínez
The owner of South Philly Barbacoa and Casa Mexico has earned the highest honors for chefs in America. But that’s just the start of her most important work
By Katherine Rapin
Tell Your Senators that Philly and PA Need SNAP
The fed’s proposed $300 billion SNAP rollback would hurt hungry Pennsylvanians and erase $5.3 billion in economic benefit, says The Community Grocer’s president
By Eli Moraru
“Directly Targeting Hungry Children”
President Trump’s cuts to food banks puts thousands of Philadelphians at risk of increased hunger. Here’s how it will affect Share Food, our area’s largest hunger relief organization
By Rachel Wisniewski
Fight Food Insecurity With Free Hot Meals
Should PA become the tenth state to opt into the Restaurant Meals Program, offering SNAP beneficiaries access to pre-cooked food?
By Cristian Salazar