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

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

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

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

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)

Oxfam called the designation "a counter-productive and dangerous policy that will put innocent lives at risk."

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

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

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

"For countries reeling from the consequences of conflicts, disasters, and...

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

Jake Johnson, staff writer

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

More than half of the House GOP caucus has endorsed a likely doomed-to-fail...

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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

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) speaks during a news conference with other House Republican leadership in Washington on Tuesday, November 17, 2020.

'What the Hell Are They Doing?' Outrage as GOP Tries to Adjourn House With Millions Going Hungry, Covid Surging

In addition to a drive-thru line, there was a walk up line for food distribution at South Gate High School in Southgate on Wednesday, November 25, 2020.

Sanders Slams McConnell for Pushing '3-Martini Lunch' Deduction and Zero Relief for 26 Million Hungry Americans

'Another World Is Possible': Ocasio-Cortez Uses Video Gaming Platform to Raise $200,000 for Fight Against Hunger, Evictions

People line up to receive free food in Clermont, Florida on November, 21, 2020. (Photo: Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/Light Rocket/Getty Images)

'Hunger Like They've Never Seen It Before': US Food Banks Struggle as 1 in 6 Families With Children Don't Have Enough to Eat

Food Bank for New York City hosts a food distribution pop-up in partnership with Alianza De Futbol during Hunger Action Month at New York Hall of Science on September 27, 2020 in Queens. (Photo: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for Food Bank For New York City)

Amid Public Health and Employment Crises, New Survey Shows Poor Americans Agree on Policy Solutions

Ahead of Thanksgiving, millions of families are in need of food assistance due to Covid-19 related layoffs and the expiration of federal unemployment benefits. Meanwhile, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and 649 other billionaires in the U.S. have amassed a combined $1 trillion in gains since the pandemic began in March 2020. (Photos: Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket and Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Stock Market Soars and Billionaire Wealth Swells by $1 Trillion as Food Lines Stretch 'As Far As the Eye Can See'

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) addressed long-delayed relief for Americans from the coronavirus pandemic in a floor speech on Friday. (Photo: YouTube/RepAOC)

'In Breaking the Senate, We Are Abandoning Our People': Watch AOC Excoriate McConnell on House Floor

Palestinian refugees receive aid distributed by a United Nations agency amid the coronavirus pandemic in Gaza City on October 8, 2020. (Photo: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

UN Agencies Warn of Global Hunger and Displacement 'Surge' From Coronavirus Pandemic

A father and his son, who suffers from moderate malnutrition, receives nutrition supplies (Plumpy sup) at WFP supported health clinic in Yemen in September of 2020. (Photo: WFP/Mohammed Awadh)

'While There Is Hunger, We Will Never Have a Peaceful World': Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to UN World Food Programme

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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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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

Juan Cole

America Is Complicit, as Yemen Spirals Toward Mass Starvation

Mark Weisbrot

If You Could Save a Million Lives, Would You Do It?

Million Belay, Timothy A. Wise

Africa at the Crossroads: Time to Abandon Failing Green Revolution

Timothy A. Wise

Replacing Hunger with Malnutrition

Robert Reich

The Clock Is Ticking: 5 Key Demands for the New Coronavirus Bill

Pierre Tristam

Food Drops Are Not Enough. Expand Food Stamps Programs Now.

Belle Chesler

This Empire Has No Clothes: In the Classroom That Zoom Built