food insecurity

A local program with the goal of ensuring students in the Boston area have a healthy meal in the summer months is getting national attention. The Shah Family Foundation started the Local Lunchbox program in Chelsea, Massachusetts, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Advocates were looking to find a way to get food to kids who were learning from…

With food insecurity affecting over a third of Massachusetts’ adult population, a young Natick girl is trying to tackle the problem with kindness. About 1.8 million people in the Bay State are hungry, according to the Greater Boston Food Bank. Hoping to help keep people fed, 7-year-old Fiona Sack built her very own little food pantry. Fiona’s father, Grayson Sack,…

The pandemic shined a spotlight on food insecurity, with young folks looking for ways to help curb this issue around the country. In New York City, one local organization powered by Millennial and Gen Z volunteers is doing its part in a much larger capacity. Rescuing Leftover Cuisine partners with restaurants to deliver excess food from restaurants to people experiencing…

The pandemic shined a spotlight on the problem of food insecurity. In New York City, one local organization, powered by Millennial and Gen Z volunteers, is fighting the problem by partnering with restaurants to deliver excess food from restaurants to people experiencing food insecurity. Rescuing Leftover Cuisine acts as the middleman, transporting food to those in need.

Ever felt so hungry you wanted to explode? That feeling, known as “hanger,” is real. A team of psychologists have proven there’s a link between feeling hungry and angry. Watch the video to hear from one of the scientists behind the study.

If you drive down Figueroa Street in Los Angeles, you’ll notice a car dealership, a music school, a Taco Bell, a McDonald’s, a gas station, a Jack in the Box, and a Popeyes. That’s what Dr. Deborah Cohen, a research scientist at Kaiser Permanente who lives in Los Angeles, would call a “food swamp.” “We live in environments where...

Results released Monday from a Greater Boston Food Bank survey on food insecurity are shocking. Just over one-third of adults in the state are hungry — that’s 1.8 million people. The president and CEO of the Greater Boston Food Bank says she’s never seen it this bad. She says the coronavirus pandemic started it and high inflation has made it…

The survey by the Greater Boston Food Bank was released Monday.

The United Nations said the figure is poised to hit “appalling” new levels this year as war in Ukraine affects global food production.

Thousands of people across Massachusetts went out for a walk on Sunday — a walk that’s raised more than a million dollars to help fight hunger in the commonwealth. On a perfect sunny day for an outdoor activity, some people went outside for more than just a breath of fresh air. “Today is actually a statewide fundraising event for Project…

Inflation is hitting low-income families especially hard, forcing many to turn to food banks.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has urged world finance leaders to “get concrete” as they look for ways to combat a looming crisis over food insecurity around the globe that Russia’s war in Ukraine has made worse

Community leaders in Vermont’s largest city say even they were surprised by the initial success of a pilot program to clear backlogs of unpaid parking fines.

The city raised nearly $40,000 to help feed hungry families by asking those with outstanding parking fines to settle their debts and sending some of the proceeds to Feeding Chittenden.

With food insecurity worsening since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a Worcester man is trying to fight hunger one seedling at a time. “No one in America should be starving,” said Charles Luster. When Luster retired, the former college basketball coach, teacher and businessman first entertained the idea of entering the cannabis business, but he turned his attention to…

As a child, East Side Riders Bike Club co-founder John Jones III was told there were lines he couldn’t cross in the neighborhood of Watts, Los Angeles. Today, he and his organization — co-founded by his father — regularly cross those gang lines by bicycle to deliver meals to anyone struggling with homelessness or food insecurity.

New research highlights tangible causes for concern for people’s physical and mental health during the pandemic in both Vermont and Maine. Several of the struggles researchers identified stemmed from food insecurity. “Food insecurity is a marker for poor health outcomes,” warned Jennifer Laurent of the University of Vermont College of Nursing & Health Sciences. Approximately 29% of people in the…

You might not be surprised at some findings, like increased anxiety and depression, but many of the problems that the report highlights stem from one common struggle.

Makayla Williams and Alexis Wray are the co-founders of MarketBoxx, an organization that provides food to college students who need it. The recent grads of North Carolina A&T, an HBCU, say students shouldn’t have to choose between a textbook and food, and want to help students follow their dreams.

A sight that’s harder to find these days could be seen Monday in Boston: Thanksgiving turkeys were handed out to more than 100 families in Roxbury. That’s thanks to a pair of Guys — New England Patriots Defensive Tackle Lawrence Guy and his wife, Andrea Guy, paid it back at the 11th annual Guy Family Thanksgiving Giveaway at the Orchard…