Tag Archives: Kate Maehr
A House of Trade
When the Church accepts state and federal dollars to fund its mission to feed the hungry, the Gospel is often the first thing that gets diluted or dissolved. Churches must examine the strings attached and keep Christ at the center of their ministries.
Posted in Culture/Family/Marriage, Federal
Tagged Ananias, Annas, Caiaphas, Gamaliel, Greater Chicago Food Depository, Joseph of Arimathea, Josephus, Kate Maehr, Nicodemus, Northern Illinois Food Bank, The Emergency Food Assistance Program
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The Hunger Industrial Complex: How America Manufactured a Food Insecurity Crisis
What began as local, church-based charity has become a federally funded, corporatized system that profits from managing poverty. This investigative report exposes how America’s modern hunger industry grew—and why it may be failing the very people it claims to serve.
Posted in Federal
Tagged Beth Saks, Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, Homeland Security, ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, IRS, Kate Maehr, National Academies Panel, National Academy of Medicine, Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, President Clinton, President George H.W. Bush, President Reagan, Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act, SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, TEFAP, The Emergency Food Assistance Program, The Hunger Prevention Act of 1988, U.S. Census Bureau, United States Department of Agriculture, USDA
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