Tag Archives: National Academy of Medicine

The Hunger Industrial Complex: How America Manufactured a Food Insecurity Crisis

Posted on December 16, 2025 by Alyssa Sonnenburg

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 Exclude from Homepage, 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 | Comments Off

Woodford County Board Considers Marijuana Retail Ban

Posted on August 10, 2019 by David E Smith

On Monday, August 12, the Public Safety Committee and the Conservation, Planning and Zoning Committee of the Woodford County Board will debate the future of marijuana sales in Woodford County. Both committees will discuss the possibility of passing a county ordinance that would prohibit marijuana dispensaries and marijuana businesses throughout Woodford County. Although the licensed growth, sale, possession and use of marijuana will be legal in Illinois effective January 1, 2020, the legislation signed into law by Governor JB Pritzker allows villages, cities and counties to opt out of marijuana retail sales.

Posted in Drugs/Alcohol/Addictions, Exclude from Homepage | Tagged American Journal of Psychiatry, JB Pritzker, marijuana opt-out, National Academy of Medicine, Woodford County Board | Comments Off