by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Dec 10, 2019 | News
Faith leaders released a letter on Dec. 9 urging 2020 candidates for president of the United States to reduce U.S. military spending. Contrasting the government’s annual expenses on “war, weapons and the military” with those funds allocated for addressing poverty and...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Oct 29, 2019 | News
One in three children under the age of 5 suffers from some form of malnutrition. One in two children faces “hidden hunger” in the form of vitamin or mineral deficiency. And one in five is overweight or obese. These were three key findings in The State of the World’s...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 13, 2019 | News
Food insecurity in the U.S. declined in 2018 to pre-recession (2007) levels, according to a Department of Agriculture (USDA) report published Sept. 4. Even so, 11.1% of households (14.3 million) remained food insecure. This is a slight reduction from 11.8% of...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 12, 2019 | News
A significant global decline in the number of people who are food insecure (lacking access to food sufficient for 2,100 daily calories) is expected over the next decade, according to a USDA report published Aug. 20. USDA’s annual publication projects food security for...
by Jeremy K. Everett | Sep 9, 2019 | Opinion
I have traveled the country and other parts of the world observing, researching and addressing hunger and poverty for the past 20 years. Much of what I have learned about addressing hunger and poverty is similar to what I learned by working in disaster response. The...
