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Hunger Action Calls on Sen. Gillibrand to lead fight for $4 billion increase in funding for child nutrition programs
Hundreds Rally at State Capitol for Jobs, Higher Welfare Grant, Access to Education. Time for Wall Street to Bail out Main Street, stop rebate of $16 billion stock transfer tax.
Hunger Action Submits Petition to Labor Dept, to Raise State Minimum Wage to $10 an Hour
Hunger Action Joins Sidewalk Summit in NYC Urging Pres. Obama to Support Improved Medicare for All
Hunger Action joins with Peace, Labor and Veterans Groups to urge cut in military budget to free up funds to help resolve state budget deficit
Hunger Action Opposes Cuts in Welfare Grant Hike, Homeless Programs and Jobs for Welfare Participants
Hunger Action Calls for Soda and Stock Transfer Taxes to Help Solve State’s Budget Woes
Two NYC Congressional Districts Have Highest Hunger Rates in Nation. One out of six NYS households experience hunger.
Hunger Action Testifies on behalf of proposed soda tax. Calls for proceeds to be targeted to anti-obesity and anti-hunger initiatives. Testimony.
Hunger Action Calls for GOOD JOBS NOW in Response to Recession Urges Lawmakers to Support Affordable Housing, Minimum Wage Hike, Ethics Reform, Single Payer Health Care
More than 50 people braved the chilly weather to attend the 21st annual People's State of the State rally at the Capitol. The group called upon the Governor to support at least $100 million in new funding for a jobs initiative.
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Hunger Action Urges Congress to add $4 billlion to federal child nutrition programs Programs such as WIC, school meals and summer meals are up for reauthorization, hopefully by March 2010.
Single Payer New York calls on Congress to make health care a human right on 61st Anniversary of UN Declaration details >
Hunger Action Network Renews Call on Lawmakers to Stop Rebating Speculator
NBC Nightly News profile a Community Supported Agriculture farm project for low-income residents of Flatbush NY started by Hunger Action Network, NYC Coalition Against Hunger, and Just Food.
Hunger Action Supports Pres. Obama's Call to End Childhood Hunger by 2015 Hunger Action recently participated in a USDA hearing in NYC on how to achieve the President's goal of ending childhood hunger. Hunger cannot be eradicated without addressing the broader issues of poverty and economic insecurity; security for children is contingent on security for families. Certainly an expanded and improved Child Nutrition Programs would be an essential foundation to ending childhood hunger in America by 2015. The US needs to treat the right to healthy food as a basic human right. A nation free from childhood hunger is one in which low-income families have the resources they need to access enough nutritious food with dignity, and where children are fed without stigma wherever they are – including at home, in school, during the summer, in childcare and in afterschool settings.
Hunger Action Network members at their annual meeting in Albany this week voted to make political reform their top organizational priority for 2009. While issues such as making rental housing affordable, universal health care, and enacting a soda tax to fund nutrition programs all received high priorities, the group believes that political corruption and the lack of democracy remains the major impediment to ending poverty and hunger. read >
Faith Groups Urge President Obama and Congress to Make Health Care a Right for All Americans (Albany, NY) The Faith and Hunger Network urged President Obama and Congress to recognize health care as a human right. The group said that the proposals being considered by the various committees in the House and the Senate all fall significantly short of the goal, leaving tens of millions without health insurance and many more with expensive and inadequate health insurance. Read story >
State Study Finds that a single payer health care system would save $20 billion annually by 2019 The long delayed state study concludes that a single payer Medicare for All type program is the most cost-effective way to provide health care to all New Yorkers Full story >
Expanding the Local Food Economy in New York State Hunger Action has made a number of recommendations for steps the nys Food Policy Council should take in 2009, starting with setting a goal of increasing the percentage of food consumed by New Yorkers that is locally grown by 2% annually. see article
Hunger Action Network Releases Report on a Decade of Welfare Reform Calls for Jobs to be more Central for Welfare to Work Effort The report outlines how New York can restructure its state welfare programs to be more effective in helping welfare participants find employment, especially at a time when a majority of participants have multiple barriers to employment. Individuals who have left welfare for work in New York have not escaped poverty due to low wages and limited hours and benefits.
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You will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to read these documents. Acrobat Reader is FREE! Click HERE to download! Hunger Alert – January 2010 Tell Governor Paterson NO to the Proposed Budget Cuts Hunger Action Network’s Annual Lobby Day: Tuesday, March 9th State Budget Briefings Getting Underway in NYC and Westchester Please fill out survey of DSS / HRA performance Update on Child Nutrition Program Reauthorization Single Payer Lobby Day in Albany: Tuesday, February 2nd Two NYC Congressional Districts Found to Lead the Nation in Hunger Soda Tax Proposed as Anti-Obesity Initiative Hunger Action Hires Andreas Kriefall as Upstate Director Faith and Hunger Network Regional Conferences Taking Place Around NYS Raise the State Minimum Wage to $10 per Hour and Index to Inflation Groups to Call on NY Congressional Delegation and State Lawmakers to Cut Military Budget USDA Hosting Free Webinars about Summer Food NYS Council on Food Policy Supports Anti-Hunger Priorities
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Dr. Andy Coates is secretary of the Capital District chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program, teaches at Albany Medical College and practices internal medicine in Albany, NY. He is a member of the Public Employees Federation, AFL-CIO and co chair of Single Payer New York. Hunger Action helps coordinate SPNY. 
