Yesterday, Queens-based NYC Council Member Eric Gioia submitted an op-ed to the New York Daily News reflecting on his week living on a food stamps diet and calling for progressive change at both local and federal levels.
Gioia rightly opined: "Government can't promise that everyone will be rich, but it should guarantee that no child goes hungry."
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The New York City Coalition Against Hunger represents New York City’s over 1,200 soup kitchens and food pantries and the 1.3 million low income New Yorkers who are forced to use them. The Coalition works to meet the immediate food needs of low-income New Yorkers and enact innovative solutions to help them move “beyond the soup kitchen” to self-sufficiency.
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- Gioia Pressures Costco to Accept Food Stamps
- Advocates Hail Bloomberg, Quinn Food Announcements
- Upstate Press Praises Schumer's Farm Bill Proposal
- Gioia Reflects on Food Stamp Challenge
- Spitzer's Council Could Reduce Hunger, Aid Farmers
- Harlem Short on Healthy, Fresh Foods
- Food Stamps Challenge Raises Awareness in Congress
- NYCCAH Celebrates 1st National AmeriCorps Week
- Gioia and Berg Respond
- Life On Food Stamps Weighs On Councilman Gioia
- Hunger and Food Stamps
- NYCCAH's Joel Berg on the Food Stamp Challenge
- NYC Councilman Takes Food Stamp Challenge
- Food Aid and the Farm Bill
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