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Pressure on Biden to End Yemen Blockade Builds With New Letter From Lawmakers

Yemeni children from families affected by the war and blockade receive a lunch meal from a charitable center on April 12, 2021 in Sana'a, Yemen. (Photo: Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

New York to Offer Undocumented Migrants Up to $15,600 in Pandemic Relief

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

Immigrants staged rally and march for immigrants rights and commemorate death from Covid-19 pandemic on Times Square. Protesters demand equal right for undocumented immigrant workers and commemorate death of undocumented immigrants from Covid-19 disease and requested financial relief the same way as citizen received from government. (Photo: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"Today, our work today has been recognized," said one undocumented worker and organizer. "Our dignity has been recognized, and our dignity has been lifted by passing this fund."

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'Shocking' April Fools' Day Study Shows 'When Hungry People Obtained More Food, They Were Less Hungry'

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

New Yorkers in need receive free produce, dry goods, and meat at a Food Bank for New York City distribution event at the Barclays Center on July 30, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Scott Heins/Getty Images)

"It turns out that people are actually in poverty mostly because they are not...

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Applause as Biden USDA Scraps Trump Bid to Take Food Benefits From More Than a Million People

Jake Johnson, staff writer

Volunteers from City harvest distribute food in Harlem on March 28, 2020 in New York City.

"Trump's biggest regulatory attack on SNAP is officially dead and buried."

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A Yemeni boy kisses the forehead of a killed child following a reported mortar shell attack on the country's third city of Taiz on February 20, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Basha/AFP via Getty Images)

Quarter of Civilian Casualties From US-Backed, Saudi-Led War in Yemen Were Children

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) thanked donors and volunteers for their "collective action when people need it most" on Sunday, February 21, 2021. (Photo: Twitter screengrab from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)

NY Democrat 'Better at Being a Texas Senator Than Ted Cruz': AOC Spends Weekend Raising Millions, Delivering Aid

Hundreds of thousands of Yemeni children could die from starvation without imminent medical treatment, a newly published United Nations report warned. (Photo: Mohammed Mohammed/Xinhua via Getty Images)

'Yet Another Cry for Help': UN Report Warns Millions of Yemeni Children Face Acute Malnutrition

Yemeni people affected by war receive food aid from a humanitarian organization on February 11, 2020 in Sana'a, Yemen. (Photo by Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

Citing Humanitarian Impact, Biden Reverses 'Dangerous' Designation of Houthis as Terrorist Group

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) speak after a press conference on Capitol Hill on December 20, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

As GOP Senators Push Smaller Covid-19 Relief Package, Dem Leaders Move to Advance Biden's Bolder Plan

A malnourished child receives medical treatment at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen on December 13, 2020. (Photo: Mohammed Mohammed/Xinhua via Getty Images)

'Famine Not Seen in 40 Years': UN Warns Pompeo Decision in Yemen Could Lead to Hundreds of Thousands—If Not Millions—Dead

Girls collect water from a well in Hajjah province, north Yemen on December 11, 2020. As a result of the U.S. State Department's decision, Oxfam noted, "humanitarian aid, goods, and personnel will be blocked from entering northern Yemen, where 70% of the population lives." (Photo: Mohammed Al-Wafi/Xinhua via Getty)

'Wanton Cruelty': Pompeo to Declare Houthis a Terrorist Group, Sparking Fears of Worsening Famine in Yemen

Two children eat a food supplement at a government clinic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Photo: Prinsloo/UNICEF)

Faced With Concurrent Crises, UNICEF Warns Millions of Children Threatened by 'Looming Famine'

People line up in cars to receive food at the Share Your Christmas food distribution event in Kissimmee, Florida on December 10, 2020.

AOC Slams House Republicans for Spending Their Time Trying to Overturn Trump Loss While 'People Are Starving'

Convention chair Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) delivers remarks on the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center on July 25, 2016 in Philadelphia. (Photo: Paul Morigi/WireImage)

Biden Provokes Frustration by Sidestepping Rep. Fudge for USDA, Treating HUD as 'Consolation Prize'

"I feel pride today, but also a sense of shame I cannot seem to shake," said David Beasley, executive director of the U.N. World Food Programme. "We are having our media moment while hunger still rages." (Photo: Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

Receiving Nobel Prize, World Food Programme Chief Warns 'We Are Losing Battle Against Hunger'

Urging Tens of Billions in Emergency Aid, Top UN Officials Warn 2021 Set to Be 'Catastrophic' for World's Poorest

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Advocates Praise USDA's Decision to Increase Emergency SNAP Benefits for Most Vulnerable Americans

Hunger Free America

Advocates Cheer "Historic" Reduction of Poverty and Hunger in Relief Bill

Hunger Free America

Advocates Strongly Praise Biden Administration’s Action on Food Aid: "Bold, Common Sense Move to Address Nation’s Hunger Crisis"

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Meng and Ocasio-cortez Work to Help Local Food Assistance Organizations Experiencing Sudden Impacts in Funding

Hunger Free America

VP Pence Repeatedly Cites Child Nutrition as a Top Reason for Re-Opening Schools

Jubilee USA Network

United Nations Warns of Famine, Urges Debt Relief and Calls for New Debt Process to Confront Coronavirus

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César Chelala

Yemen Is a Public Health Catastrophe

Kathy Kelly

Hunting in Yemen

Adam Parsons, Sonja Scherndl

It's Time to End the Insanity of Colossal Military Spending and Reallocate Funds to Basic Economic and Social Needs

Alexandra Kotowski

Four Things to Know About How Residents of the World's Largest Refugee Camp Have Braved Covid-19

Rajan Menon

How This Country Fails Its Most Vulnerable

Paul Buchheit

2021 Update: Half of America In or Near Poverty

Philip H. Howard, Mary Hendrickson

Corporate Concentration in the US Food System Makes Food More Expensive and Less Accessible

Jesse Jackson

The True Meaning of Christmas in the Age of Pandemic and Austerity

Rajan Menon

Covid-19 and the Nightmare of Food Insecurity

Annie Levin

Rebuilding the Solidarity Economy During Covid-19