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And some districts said their meal-service budgets are being stretched so much by the pandemic that they could soon face cuts and layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, Bauer said, about a third of U.S. families with children are suffering from food insecurity. \"More alarmingly, 1 in 5 families say that the children themselves don't have sufficient food, and the families don't have enough resources to purchase more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some children, school meals may be the only ones they get in a day. And with school feeding programs reaching fewer and fewer families, Bauer worries that \"children are going hungry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The challenge: \"Parents are back at work\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When schools closed for remote learning in the spring, most districts quickly shifted into a familiar model of food distribution: their summer plan. Under this model, districts chose a handful of schools, in neighborhoods with the greatest need, where families could drop by each day, often between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., and pick up a bag with lunch and often breakfast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pickup during the pandemic has been incredibly easy, thanks to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's willingness to forgo traditional, school-year paperwork. If a child wants a meal, that child gets a meal, and the school gets compensated by USDA whether that meal goes to an eligible student, a younger sibling or a kid from the nearby private school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late August, USDA \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2020/08/31/usda-extends-free-meals-kids-through-december-31-2020\">announced\u003c/a> it would extend that flexibility through the end of the year to \"ensure meals are reaching all children – whether they are learning in the classroom or virtually — so they are fed and ready to learn,\" Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perdue's announcement was cheered by school leaders across the country, but they said a major hurdle remains: This food pickup model still requires families to come to a designated site at a designated time. And many can't. Often, parents and caregivers have to work and can't get away in the middle of the day. Or they don't have a way to get to the designated pickup site. Or they're not comfortable making daily food runs in a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, when the School Nutrition Association \u003ca href=\"https://schoolnutrition.org/uploadedFiles/11COVID-19/3_Webinar_Series_and_Other_Resources/COVID-19-Impact-on-School-Nutriction-Programs-Part2.pdf\">surveyed\u003c/a> school nutrition directors representing nearly 2,000 districts, 80% said they were serving fewer meals than they had been when school was in session. Of those, a majority of districts said the number of meals had dropped by 50% or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a drastic change,\" Fulton County's Wright said. Before her schools went remote last spring, she said they served between 50,000 and 60,000 meals a day. After students were sent home, Wright said they gave out roughly 70,000 meals\u003cem> per week\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Tucson, Aguilar said the challenges her team face distributing food have only worsened as the pandemic has worn on. In the spring, even with students home, the district served twice as many meals as it's serving now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were all quarantined. Everything was shut down. So it was a lot more realistic,\" Aguilar said for families to be able to pick up food because they were working at home or not at all.\u003cem> \"\u003c/em>Now, parents are back at work. So we're definitely seeing those numbers quite drastically decline.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Taking the food to the child\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School nutrition directors said, if the students can no longer come to the food, then they're going to do everything in their power to take the food to students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Tucson, Aguilar has been packing grab-and-go meals onto the district's school buses and distributing them across 67 bus stops every day. In Fulton County, Wright is starting to do the same — but instead of a day or two's worth of food, she and her school team are freezing hamburgers and pizza and trying to give families a week's worth of meals in one bus drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wright said her happiest day of this pandemic came about a week ago when her district began sending buses into the community. She followed one of those buses to an apartment complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And just to see the thankfulness on the parents' faces, to hear their comments about, 'This is so great because we could not get to the food, we didn't have transportation,' \" Wright said. \"Then to hear the thankfulness in the kids' voices, to know that they did not have to worry about a meal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some districts simply can't manage — or afford — to put food on buses like this. And even those that do, still can't reach every student, or even \u003cem>most \u003c/em>students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I joke all the time,\" Aguilar said, \"I'm like, 'We need Amazon Prime out of our warehouse, basically, is what we need right now.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This drive, to get school meals as close to a child's doorstep as possible, comes as many school meal programs are in serious financial trouble because of school closures. Their budgets depend on being able to sell meals and snacks to students who can pay. In the School Nutrition Association survey, two-thirds of school nutrition directors said they anticipated taking an overall financial loss for the 2019-20 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Throughout the country, many of our programs are extremely challenged financially,\" North Carolina's Ross said. \"And if the types of numbers that we saw the first few weeks of school continue, many of our programs are going to be challenged to keep their staff on board.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pandemic EBT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time the nation's schools began pushing their meal programs into school parking lots and onto buses, Congress created a separate effort meant to feed children by helping their parents and caregivers pay for groceries. Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer, or EBT, took the value of the school meals kids weren't getting in the spring and put it — usually in a lump sum of a few hundred dollars — onto a debit card that families could use at the grocery store. Families already enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (once known as food stamps) could have the value placed directly on their SNAP debit card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Although it may be necessary to close schools, it is also imperative that we keep in mind that school meals are often the only meals some students receive,\" said Rep. Marcia Fudge, an Ohio Democrat who helped \u003ca href=\"https://fudge.house.gov/press-statements/amid-coronavirus-reps-fudge-scott-introduce-legislation-to-provide-emergency-ebt-assistance/\">introduce\u003c/a> the legislation in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bauer, the Brookings researcher, \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/P-EBT_LO_7.30.pdf\">said Pandemic EBT\u003c/a> \"kept between 2.5 [million] and 3.5 million children out of hunger this summer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, as of Labor Day, the program has expired in a majority of states, and Congress has not yet renewed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Children+Are+Going+Hungry%27%3A+Why+Schools+Are+Struggling+To+Feed+Students+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"School meals are the only meals some children get in a day. But during the pandemic, school feeding programs have been reaching fewer and fewer families.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1621632563,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":38,"wordCount":1460},"headData":{"title":"'Children Are Going Hungry': Why Schools Are Struggling To Feed Students | KQED","description":"School meals are the only meals some children get in a day. But during the pandemic, school feeding programs have been reaching fewer and fewer families.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"138933 https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=138933","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2020/09/08/children-are-going-hungry-why-schools-are-struggling-to-feed-students/","disqusTitle":"'Children Are Going Hungry': Why Schools Are Struggling To Feed Students","nprImageCredit":"LA Johnson","nprByline":"Cory Turner","nprImageAgency":"NPR","nprStoryId":"908442609","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=908442609&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/08/908442609/children-are-going-hungry-why-schools-are-struggling-to-feed-students?ft=nprml&f=908442609","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 08 Sep 2020 11:34:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 08 Sep 2020 05:00:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 08 Sep 2020 11:34:47 -0400","nprAudio":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2020/09/20200908_me_children_are_going_hungry_why_schools_are_struggling_to_feed_students_.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1013&aggIds=812054919&d=225&p=3&story=908442609&ft=nprml&f=908442609","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1910586965-39a250.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1013&aggIds=812054919&d=225&p=3&story=908442609&ft=nprml&f=908442609","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/bayareabites/138933/children-are-going-hungry-why-schools-are-struggling-to-feed-students","audioUrl":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2020/09/20200908_me_children_are_going_hungry_why_schools_are_struggling_to_feed_students_.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1013&aggIds=812054919&d=225&p=3&story=908442609&ft=nprml&f=908442609","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Six months into schools' pandemic-driven experiment in distance learning, much has been said (and debated) about whether children \u003cem>are \u003c/em>learning. But the more urgent question, for the more than 30 million kids who depend on U.S. schools for free or reduced-price meals, is this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are they \u003cem>eating\u003c/em>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer, based on recent data and interviews with school nutrition leaders and anti-hunger advocates across the country, is alarming\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among low-income households with children who qualify for free or reduced-price school meals, only about 15% have been getting those meals, said Lauren Bauer, a researcher at the Brookings Institution. She's been \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/07/09/about-14-million-children-in-the-us-are-not-getting-enough-to-eat/\">poring over the results\u003c/a> of the U.S. Census Bureau's weekly Household Pulse Survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anecdotally, school nutrition directors across the country tell a similar story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every day I worry about them. Every day,\" said Alyssia Wright, executive director of Fulton County Schools' nutrition program in Fulton County, Ga. \"We come up with ways every week to find a new way to get meals to our kids.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the old ways, from just a few months ago, aren't working anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before COVID-19, Arizona's Tucson Unified School District served roughly 35,000 meals a day. So far this school year, according to Lindsay Aguilar, the district's food services director, that number has plummeted by nearly 90%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drop is \"disheartening,\" Aguilar said, \"because in our district, 70% of our families qualify for free or reduced-price meals. So I know there's a need.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Charlotte, N.C., school leaders have seen \"a huge difference\" in meal distribution, said Reggie Ross, who works for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and heads the national School Nutrition Association. So far this year, Ross said, school meals in Charlotte \"were down about 89%.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many districts, the majority of children who qualify for subsidized school meals aren't getting them — often because they can't get \u003cem>to\u003c/em> them. And some districts said their meal-service budgets are being stretched so much by the pandemic that they could soon face cuts and layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, Bauer said, about a third of U.S. families with children are suffering from food insecurity. \"More alarmingly, 1 in 5 families say that the children themselves don't have sufficient food, and the families don't have enough resources to purchase more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some children, school meals may be the only ones they get in a day. And with school feeding programs reaching fewer and fewer families, Bauer worries that \"children are going hungry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The challenge: \"Parents are back at work\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When schools closed for remote learning in the spring, most districts quickly shifted into a familiar model of food distribution: their summer plan. Under this model, districts chose a handful of schools, in neighborhoods with the greatest need, where families could drop by each day, often between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., and pick up a bag with lunch and often breakfast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pickup during the pandemic has been incredibly easy, thanks to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's willingness to forgo traditional, school-year paperwork. If a child wants a meal, that child gets a meal, and the school gets compensated by USDA whether that meal goes to an eligible student, a younger sibling or a kid from the nearby private school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late August, USDA \u003ca href=\"https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2020/08/31/usda-extends-free-meals-kids-through-december-31-2020\">announced\u003c/a> it would extend that flexibility through the end of the year to \"ensure meals are reaching all children – whether they are learning in the classroom or virtually — so they are fed and ready to learn,\" Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perdue's announcement was cheered by school leaders across the country, but they said a major hurdle remains: This food pickup model still requires families to come to a designated site at a designated time. And many can't. Often, parents and caregivers have to work and can't get away in the middle of the day. Or they don't have a way to get to the designated pickup site. Or they're not comfortable making daily food runs in a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, when the School Nutrition Association \u003ca href=\"https://schoolnutrition.org/uploadedFiles/11COVID-19/3_Webinar_Series_and_Other_Resources/COVID-19-Impact-on-School-Nutriction-Programs-Part2.pdf\">surveyed\u003c/a> school nutrition directors representing nearly 2,000 districts, 80% said they were serving fewer meals than they had been when school was in session. Of those, a majority of districts said the number of meals had dropped by 50% or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a drastic change,\" Fulton County's Wright said. Before her schools went remote last spring, she said they served between 50,000 and 60,000 meals a day. After students were sent home, Wright said they gave out roughly 70,000 meals\u003cem> per week\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Tucson, Aguilar said the challenges her team face distributing food have only worsened as the pandemic has worn on. In the spring, even with students home, the district served twice as many meals as it's serving now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were all quarantined. Everything was shut down. So it was a lot more realistic,\" Aguilar said for families to be able to pick up food because they were working at home or not at all.\u003cem> \"\u003c/em>Now, parents are back at work. So we're definitely seeing those numbers quite drastically decline.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Taking the food to the child\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School nutrition directors said, if the students can no longer come to the food, then they're going to do everything in their power to take the food to students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Tucson, Aguilar has been packing grab-and-go meals onto the district's school buses and distributing them across 67 bus stops every day. In Fulton County, Wright is starting to do the same — but instead of a day or two's worth of food, she and her school team are freezing hamburgers and pizza and trying to give families a week's worth of meals in one bus drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wright said her happiest day of this pandemic came about a week ago when her district began sending buses into the community. She followed one of those buses to an apartment complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And just to see the thankfulness on the parents' faces, to hear their comments about, 'This is so great because we could not get to the food, we didn't have transportation,' \" Wright said. \"Then to hear the thankfulness in the kids' voices, to know that they did not have to worry about a meal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some districts simply can't manage — or afford — to put food on buses like this. And even those that do, still can't reach every student, or even \u003cem>most \u003c/em>students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I joke all the time,\" Aguilar said, \"I'm like, 'We need Amazon Prime out of our warehouse, basically, is what we need right now.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This drive, to get school meals as close to a child's doorstep as possible, comes as many school meal programs are in serious financial trouble because of school closures. Their budgets depend on being able to sell meals and snacks to students who can pay. In the School Nutrition Association survey, two-thirds of school nutrition directors said they anticipated taking an overall financial loss for the 2019-20 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Throughout the country, many of our programs are extremely challenged financially,\" North Carolina's Ross said. \"And if the types of numbers that we saw the first few weeks of school continue, many of our programs are going to be challenged to keep their staff on board.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pandemic EBT\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time the nation's schools began pushing their meal programs into school parking lots and onto buses, Congress created a separate effort meant to feed children by helping their parents and caregivers pay for groceries. Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer, or EBT, took the value of the school meals kids weren't getting in the spring and put it — usually in a lump sum of a few hundred dollars — onto a debit card that families could use at the grocery store. Families already enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (once known as food stamps) could have the value placed directly on their SNAP debit card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Although it may be necessary to close schools, it is also imperative that we keep in mind that school meals are often the only meals some students receive,\" said Rep. Marcia Fudge, an Ohio Democrat who helped \u003ca href=\"https://fudge.house.gov/press-statements/amid-coronavirus-reps-fudge-scott-introduce-legislation-to-provide-emergency-ebt-assistance/\">introduce\u003c/a> the legislation in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bauer, the Brookings researcher, \u003ca href=\"https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/P-EBT_LO_7.30.pdf\">said Pandemic EBT\u003c/a> \"kept between 2.5 [million] and 3.5 million children out of hunger this summer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, as of Labor Day, the program has expired in a majority of states, and Congress has not yet renewed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Children+Are+Going+Hungry%27%3A+Why+Schools+Are+Struggling+To+Feed+Students+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/138933/children-are-going-hungry-why-schools-are-struggling-to-feed-students","authors":["byline_bayareabites_138933"],"categories":["bayareabites_16558","bayareabites_109","bayareabites_17082"],"tags":["bayareabites_16557","bayareabites_744","bayareabites_13313","bayareabites_16551"],"featImg":"bayareabites_138934","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_135943":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_135943","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"135943","score":null,"sort":[1576520720000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"obesity-is-linked-to-food-insecurity-snap-cuts-may-make-both-worse","title":"Obesity is Linked to Food Insecurity. SNAP Cuts May Make Both Worse.","publishDate":1576520720,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This op-ed originally appeared on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/12/16/787793287/opinion-obesity-is-linked-to-food-insecurity-cutting-snap-benefits-may-worsen-bo\">NPR Food\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Elsa Pearson, MPH, is a senior policy analyst at Boston University School of Public Health. She's on Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/epearsonbusph?lang=en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@epearsonbusph\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closest grocery store is a few miles away and your paycheck doesn't clear until Friday. You even skipped lunch. With no car, only a few dollars and kids at home, you decide dinner will have to, yet again, be the local fast food restaurant within walking distance. It's cost effective, but you're already bracing for the \"healthy weight\" conversation at the pediatrician's next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over \u003ca href=\"https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food-security-in-the-us/key-statistics-graphics.aspx#foodsecure\">11\u003c/a>% of all households in the United States are food insecure. They worry about running out of food and rationing what they do have. It is clear food insecurity leads to \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0645\">poorer health\u003c/a>. Regardless of age, food insecure individuals are more likely to struggle with anxiety and depression. Children are at higher risk for asthma, malnutrition and cognitive problems. Non-elderly adults are more likely to have hypertension and diabetes, and seniors see limitations in their daily activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The connection between food insecurity and obesity may seem less obvious. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus18.pdf?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosvitals&stream=top\">one in five kids\u003c/a> in America is obese, with rates rising in adults to two in five, and recent research suggests the link between the two may be stronger than we think.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11789923']For example, in a small study of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26377352\">2-to-8 year-old Hispanic children\u003c/a> and their mothers, being food insecure increased the chances the children would also be obese. A much bigger study including almost 10,000 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25737437\">6-to-11 year-old children\u003c/a> found a similar connection. In adults, food insecurity has been found to be associated with a higher risk of obesity in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195666316310236?via%3Dihub\">white and Hispanic women\u003c/a>. (Interestingly, the researchers didn't find any link in men or black women.) Plus, after studying \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/first-nations-food-insecurity_ca_5dc32058e4b005513881f6ab\">Canada's First Nations population\u003c/a> for a decade, researchers linked higher rates of food insecurity to higher rates of obesity and diabetes when compared with the country's general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The connection now seems clear, but how does less food lead to more weight for some people?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One researcher suggests it's due to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27126969\">scarcity hypothesis\u003c/a> — when food is hard to find, the body prepares by seeking calorie-dense food and storing up energy in fat tissue. Dr. Emily Dhurandhar from Texas Tech University argues that the overabundance of high-calorie food in a neighborhood isn't enough to magically cause obesity; there must also be a physiological signal to save energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Dhurandhar's theory may be hard to quantify or address through policy. However, certain neighborhood factors do increase an individual's likelihood of being food insecure and, it turns out, are also associated with a higher risk of obesity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, living in a food desert can negatively impact your health, putting you at higher risk of becoming overweight or obese. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2011/december/data-feature-mapping-food-deserts-in-the-us/\">Food deserts\u003c/a> are low-income communities where stores to buy fruits, vegetables and other whole foods are either too far away or don't exist at all. Even when controlling for individual and household factors, such as diet and exercise or household education level, living in a food desert is linked to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26985622\">higher risk of obesity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research has shown that not only does distance to the grocery store matter, but so do the store's prices. Lower prices have been associated with \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22698052/\">higher rates of obesity\u003c/a>. That's because stores with higher prices place more emphasis on displaying and marketing healthy food, but their healthy food is then often unaffordable. Lower prices mean more affordable food — but also often lower quality and nutritional value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lastly, living in a food swamp can also increase your risk of obesity. What food deserts lack in healthy options, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/12/food-swamps/549275/\">food swamps\u003c/a> make up for in fast food and junk food; what's available is high in calories, sodium and sugar. Research suggests food swamps may actually \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29135909\">be better\u003c/a> at predicting local obesity patterns than food deserts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the link between food insecurity and obesity is as significant as it seems, what can we do to fix it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, we can improve the options available in food insecure neighborhoods, with an emphasis on fresh produce and whole foods. At the same time, we should work to lower the cost of healthy food and improve stores' marketing strategies. In fact, lowering prices may offer \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25217097\">more relief\u003c/a> than simply adding more grocery stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a broader level, federal policies can also alleviate individual barriers to good food. Food assistance programs, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (\u003ca href=\"https://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/proposed-eligibility-changes-to-snap-may-be-harmful-to-your-health/\">SNAP\u003c/a>) and WIC (a similar assistance program for mothers and children), and even Medicaid all help. The relationship between SNAP benefits and food insecurity is \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/pdf/10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05265\">clear\u003c/a> — those who lose their benefits become more food insecure. Research suggests that gaining \u003ca href=\"https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305168\">Medicaid coverage\u003c/a> through the Affordable Care Act also improves food security by alleviating health care expenses that previously diverted family resources away from food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past year, the Trump administration has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/us/politics/trump-food-stamp-cuts.html\">proposed\u003c/a> cutting back food stamp eligibility three separate times to save money. One of those rule changes, scheduled to take effect next April, may \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/04/784732180/nearly-700-000-snap-recipients-could-lose-benefits-under-new-trump-rule\">kick nearly 700,000 people off SNAP\u003c/a>. Doing so may help the federal budget, but it may also increase rates of food insecurity and \u003ca href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-the-trump-administrations-proposed-food-stamp-cutbacks-could-worsen-the-obesity-crisis-2019-10-14\">fuel\u003c/a> the current obesity epidemic. As these two issues threaten the health of our communities, federal policies and community-based interventions are significant players in our fight to reduce the rates of both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Over 11 % of U.S. households worry about running out of food and rationing what they have. Meanwhile, 2 in 5 adults is obese. Research suggests the links between the two are stronger than we think.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1576532463,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":940},"headData":{"title":"Obesity is Linked to Food Insecurity. SNAP Cuts May Make Both Worse. | KQED","description":"Over 11 % of U.S. households worry about running out of food and rationing what they have. Meanwhile, 2 in 5 adults is obese. Research suggests the links between the two are stronger than we think.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"135943 https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=135943","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2019/12/16/obesity-is-linked-to-food-insecurity-snap-cuts-may-make-both-worse/","disqusTitle":"Obesity is Linked to Food Insecurity. SNAP Cuts May Make Both Worse.","source":"Commentary","nprImageCredit":"Danny Moloshok/Los Angeles County Department of Public Health","nprByline":"Elsa Pearson","nprImageAgency":"AP","nprStoryId":"787793287","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=787793287&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/12/16/787793287/opinion-obesity-is-linked-to-food-insecurity-cutting-snap-benefits-may-worsen-bo?ft=nprml&f=787793287","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Mon, 16 Dec 2019 11:20:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Mon, 16 Dec 2019 08:15:48 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Mon, 16 Dec 2019 11:20:38 -0500","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/bayareabites/135943/obesity-is-linked-to-food-insecurity-snap-cuts-may-make-both-worse","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This op-ed originally appeared on \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/12/16/787793287/opinion-obesity-is-linked-to-food-insecurity-cutting-snap-benefits-may-worsen-bo\">NPR Food\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Elsa Pearson, MPH, is a senior policy analyst at Boston University School of Public Health. She's on Twitter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/epearsonbusph?lang=en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@epearsonbusph\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closest grocery store is a few miles away and your paycheck doesn't clear until Friday. You even skipped lunch. With no car, only a few dollars and kids at home, you decide dinner will have to, yet again, be the local fast food restaurant within walking distance. It's cost effective, but you're already bracing for the \"healthy weight\" conversation at the pediatrician's next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over \u003ca href=\"https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food-security-in-the-us/key-statistics-graphics.aspx#foodsecure\">11\u003c/a>% of all households in the United States are food insecure. They worry about running out of food and rationing what they do have. It is clear food insecurity leads to \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0645\">poorer health\u003c/a>. Regardless of age, food insecure individuals are more likely to struggle with anxiety and depression. Children are at higher risk for asthma, malnutrition and cognitive problems. Non-elderly adults are more likely to have hypertension and diabetes, and seniors see limitations in their daily activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The connection between food insecurity and obesity may seem less obvious. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus18.pdf?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosvitals&stream=top\">one in five kids\u003c/a> in America is obese, with rates rising in adults to two in five, and recent research suggests the link between the two may be stronger than we think.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11789923","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>For example, in a small study of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26377352\">2-to-8 year-old Hispanic children\u003c/a> and their mothers, being food insecure increased the chances the children would also be obese. A much bigger study including almost 10,000 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25737437\">6-to-11 year-old children\u003c/a> found a similar connection. In adults, food insecurity has been found to be associated with a higher risk of obesity in \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195666316310236?via%3Dihub\">white and Hispanic women\u003c/a>. (Interestingly, the researchers didn't find any link in men or black women.) Plus, after studying \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/first-nations-food-insecurity_ca_5dc32058e4b005513881f6ab\">Canada's First Nations population\u003c/a> for a decade, researchers linked higher rates of food insecurity to higher rates of obesity and diabetes when compared with the country's general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The connection now seems clear, but how does less food lead to more weight for some people?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One researcher suggests it's due to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27126969\">scarcity hypothesis\u003c/a> — when food is hard to find, the body prepares by seeking calorie-dense food and storing up energy in fat tissue. Dr. Emily Dhurandhar from Texas Tech University argues that the overabundance of high-calorie food in a neighborhood isn't enough to magically cause obesity; there must also be a physiological signal to save energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Dhurandhar's theory may be hard to quantify or address through policy. However, certain neighborhood factors do increase an individual's likelihood of being food insecure and, it turns out, are also associated with a higher risk of obesity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, living in a food desert can negatively impact your health, putting you at higher risk of becoming overweight or obese. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2011/december/data-feature-mapping-food-deserts-in-the-us/\">Food deserts\u003c/a> are low-income communities where stores to buy fruits, vegetables and other whole foods are either too far away or don't exist at all. Even when controlling for individual and household factors, such as diet and exercise or household education level, living in a food desert is linked to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26985622\">higher risk of obesity\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research has shown that not only does distance to the grocery store matter, but so do the store's prices. Lower prices have been associated with \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22698052/\">higher rates of obesity\u003c/a>. That's because stores with higher prices place more emphasis on displaying and marketing healthy food, but their healthy food is then often unaffordable. Lower prices mean more affordable food — but also often lower quality and nutritional value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lastly, living in a food swamp can also increase your risk of obesity. What food deserts lack in healthy options, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/12/food-swamps/549275/\">food swamps\u003c/a> make up for in fast food and junk food; what's available is high in calories, sodium and sugar. Research suggests food swamps may actually \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29135909\">be better\u003c/a> at predicting local obesity patterns than food deserts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the link between food insecurity and obesity is as significant as it seems, what can we do to fix it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, we can improve the options available in food insecure neighborhoods, with an emphasis on fresh produce and whole foods. At the same time, we should work to lower the cost of healthy food and improve stores' marketing strategies. In fact, lowering prices may offer \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25217097\">more relief\u003c/a> than simply adding more grocery stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a broader level, federal policies can also alleviate individual barriers to good food. Food assistance programs, such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (\u003ca href=\"https://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/proposed-eligibility-changes-to-snap-may-be-harmful-to-your-health/\">SNAP\u003c/a>) and WIC (a similar assistance program for mothers and children), and even Medicaid all help. The relationship between SNAP benefits and food insecurity is \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/pdf/10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05265\">clear\u003c/a> — those who lose their benefits become more food insecure. Research suggests that gaining \u003ca href=\"https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305168\">Medicaid coverage\u003c/a> through the Affordable Care Act also improves food security by alleviating health care expenses that previously diverted family resources away from food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past year, the Trump administration has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/us/politics/trump-food-stamp-cuts.html\">proposed\u003c/a> cutting back food stamp eligibility three separate times to save money. One of those rule changes, scheduled to take effect next April, may \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/12/04/784732180/nearly-700-000-snap-recipients-could-lose-benefits-under-new-trump-rule\">kick nearly 700,000 people off SNAP\u003c/a>. Doing so may help the federal budget, but it may also increase rates of food insecurity and \u003ca href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-the-trump-administrations-proposed-food-stamp-cutbacks-could-worsen-the-obesity-crisis-2019-10-14\">fuel\u003c/a> the current obesity epidemic. As these two issues threaten the health of our communities, federal policies and community-based interventions are significant players in our fight to reduce the rates of both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/135943/obesity-is-linked-to-food-insecurity-snap-cuts-may-make-both-worse","authors":["byline_bayareabites_135943"],"categories":["bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_181"],"tags":["bayareabites_13313","bayareabites_2613","bayareabites_11838"],"featImg":"bayareabites_135949","label":"source_bayareabites_135943"},"bayareabites_132062":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_132062","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"132062","score":null,"sort":[1547156603000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"report-college-students-are-hungry-and-government-programs-could-do-more-to-help","title":"Report: College Students Are Hungry And Government Programs Could Do More To Help","publishDate":1547156603,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>College students across the country struggle with food insecurity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuition and books, plus many hours away from a job, can be a huge financial burden on students — and for many, skipping meals can be a last-minute solution to a bad financial situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-19-95\">A new government report \u003c/a>finds that millions of college students are very likely struggling. And the report — which is from the Government Accountability Office — concludes that the federal systems in place could do a better job of helping them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There isn't federal data on food insecurity among college students nationally, so the GAO reviewed 31 studies on the topic, showing that most concluded that over a third of college students don't always have enough to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a major, major moment and a major victory in the fight against campus hunger,\" Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor at Temple University, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/mazonusa/videos/542290686275529/\">said at a briefing\u003c/a> Wednesday. The GAO cited \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/03/599197919/hunger-and-homelessness-are-widespread-among-college-students-study-finds\">her research on food insecurity\u003c/a> throughout the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GAO's report points out that just 29 percent of college students today are \"traditional students\" — those who enroll immediately after high school and depend on their parents for financial support. The vast majority — 71 percent — don't follow the narrative of the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/09/04/638561407/todays-college-students-arent-who-you-think-they-are\">typical\u003c/a>\" college student. They might be financially independent, have kids of their own or fit any one of a number of characteristics that the report lays out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's important to remember: While middle-class students may joke about being \"broke college students\" who eat ramen for a week, many students are truly hungry, says Carrie Welton, a policy analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Low-income students, first-generation students and students of color have a very different experience,\" Welton says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report focuses on ways that the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program could better help students struggling with hunger. SNAP — which operates under the Food and Nutrition Service of the federal government — provides low-income Americans with assistance for food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's one of the best ways to reduce food insecurity among college students, says Welton. But many students who could be receiving those benefits don't realize it, because the eligibility guidelines are unclear. According to the report, almost 2 million students who may have been eligible for SNAP didn't receive benefits in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is safe to say that it's confusing and cumbersome, and feels like a very large lift, not only for students to understand it but post-secondary institutions,\" Welton explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many colleges are taking their own steps to address hunger on campus by organizing food pantries and coordinating among staff to identify and work with students who need assistance. But school staff that try to help students access SNAP benefits are often faced with hurdles. At many colleges GAO researchers spoke with, students and school leaders said they were unclear about the SNAP eligibility rules or had incorrect information about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even some staff at state SNAP agencies and regional Food and Nutrition Service offices said that they weren't entirely clear on eligibility rules. The report recommended that the Food and Nutrition Service website clarify SNAP eligibility requirements so that the site can serve as a resource for schools and states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also recommended that the Food and Nutrition Service review the various approaches that individual state SNAP agencies are taking to help students and share them among the states. These state agencies have some flexibility in how they provide services, and some are taking steps to reach out to college students and clarify eligibility rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No one gets ahead by letting these numbers go on,\" Goldrick-Rab said \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/mazonusa/videos/542290686275529/\">Wednesday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government invests billions every year in student financial aid — but many students who receive those funds don't make it through college. As the GAO report notes, access to SNAP benefits \u003ca href=\"http://www.equalmeasure.org/ideas/report/final-evaluation-report-public-benefits-and-community-colleges-lessons-from-the-benefits-access-for-college-completion-demonstration/\">has been shown\u003c/a> to increase the likelihood that those students will graduate with a degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Report%3A+College+Students+Are+Hungry+And+Government+Programs+Could+Do+More+To+Help&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A federal report finds many undergraduates are too hungry to learn and don't have enough information to access the federal resources available to help. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1547156603,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":679},"headData":{"title":"Report: College Students Are Hungry And Government Programs Could Do More To Help | KQED","description":"A federal report finds many undergraduates are too hungry to learn and don't have enough information to access the federal resources available to help. 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And the report — which is from the Government Accountability Office — concludes that the federal systems in place could do a better job of helping them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There isn't federal data on food insecurity among college students nationally, so the GAO reviewed 31 studies on the topic, showing that most concluded that over a third of college students don't always have enough to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a major, major moment and a major victory in the fight against campus hunger,\" Sara Goldrick-Rab, a professor at Temple University, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/mazonusa/videos/542290686275529/\">said at a briefing\u003c/a> Wednesday. The GAO cited \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/03/599197919/hunger-and-homelessness-are-widespread-among-college-students-study-finds\">her research on food insecurity\u003c/a> throughout the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GAO's report points out that just 29 percent of college students today are \"traditional students\" — those who enroll immediately after high school and depend on their parents for financial support. The vast majority — 71 percent — don't follow the narrative of the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/09/04/638561407/todays-college-students-arent-who-you-think-they-are\">typical\u003c/a>\" college student. They might be financially independent, have kids of their own or fit any one of a number of characteristics that the report lays out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's important to remember: While middle-class students may joke about being \"broke college students\" who eat ramen for a week, many students are truly hungry, says Carrie Welton, a policy analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Low-income students, first-generation students and students of color have a very different experience,\" Welton says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report focuses on ways that the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program could better help students struggling with hunger. SNAP — which operates under the Food and Nutrition Service of the federal government — provides low-income Americans with assistance for food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's one of the best ways to reduce food insecurity among college students, says Welton. But many students who could be receiving those benefits don't realize it, because the eligibility guidelines are unclear. According to the report, almost 2 million students who may have been eligible for SNAP didn't receive benefits in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is safe to say that it's confusing and cumbersome, and feels like a very large lift, not only for students to understand it but post-secondary institutions,\" Welton explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many colleges are taking their own steps to address hunger on campus by organizing food pantries and coordinating among staff to identify and work with students who need assistance. But school staff that try to help students access SNAP benefits are often faced with hurdles. At many colleges GAO researchers spoke with, students and school leaders said they were unclear about the SNAP eligibility rules or had incorrect information about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even some staff at state SNAP agencies and regional Food and Nutrition Service offices said that they weren't entirely clear on eligibility rules. The report recommended that the Food and Nutrition Service website clarify SNAP eligibility requirements so that the site can serve as a resource for schools and states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also recommended that the Food and Nutrition Service review the various approaches that individual state SNAP agencies are taking to help students and share them among the states. These state agencies have some flexibility in how they provide services, and some are taking steps to reach out to college students and clarify eligibility rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No one gets ahead by letting these numbers go on,\" Goldrick-Rab said \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/mazonusa/videos/542290686275529/\">Wednesday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government invests billions every year in student financial aid — but many students who receive those funds don't make it through college. As the GAO report notes, access to SNAP benefits \u003ca href=\"http://www.equalmeasure.org/ideas/report/final-evaluation-report-public-benefits-and-community-colleges-lessons-from-the-benefits-access-for-college-completion-demonstration/\">has been shown\u003c/a> to increase the likelihood that those students will graduate with a degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Report%3A+College+Students+Are+Hungry+And+Government+Programs+Could+Do+More+To+Help&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/132062/report-college-students-are-hungry-and-government-programs-could-do-more-to-help","authors":["byline_bayareabites_132062"],"categories":["bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_11028","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_358"],"tags":["bayareabites_14178","bayareabites_13313","bayareabites_14775","bayareabites_16272","bayareabites_449","bayareabites_11838","bayareabites_11439"],"featImg":"bayareabites_132063","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_126400":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_126400","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"126400","score":null,"sort":[1522790958000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"food-housing-insecurity-may-be-keeping-college-students-from-graduating","title":"Food, Housing Insecurity May Be Keeping College Students From Graduating","publishDate":1522790958,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>In college, it's hard to learn while you're hungry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a message Temple University higher education policy professor Sara Goldrick-Rab has been getting throughout her career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She self-identifies as a \"scholar activist.\" She has advocated for free college, and in 2013 she founded the \u003ca href=\"http://wihopelab.com/index.html\">Wisconsin HOPE Lab\u003c/a>, which aims to turn research about low-income students into policies that improve equitable outcomes in post-secondary education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the HOPE lab released a new report based on an online survey of more than 40,000 students at 66 community colleges and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the findings: In the past 30 days, 36 percent of university students and 42 percent of community college students felt food insecure, which \"means that students have trouble getting enough to eat on a daily basis,\" Goldrick-Rab says. \"They may go without meals, they may lose weight and they may go without nutritious food.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She spoke with \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> host Audie Cornish about the report, and the challenges ahead. Excerpts of their conversation are transcribed below, edited for length and clarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2018/04/20180403_atc_food_housing_insecurity_may_be_keeping_college_students_from_graduating.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Because people volunteered to participate in this survey, it's a self-selecting group. Does it really represent what's going on in higher education right now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no nationally representative studies available to look at these problems. The federal government is the only one who collects that sort of information on college students, and they don't ask a single question about food or housing insecurity. So the only way we can get information about this is by asking colleges' permission to survey their students. This is an area of research that receives almost no funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In our survey, we used the U.S. Department of Agriculture's standardized measure of food security with everybody all over the world. We asked college students the exact same set of questions. We asked them about things that have happened to them in the past 30 days, and the extent to which they agree with statements like: I have not had enough food to eat because of lack of money. I have lost weight because I have not eaten enough. I have skipped meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What's the effect on low-income students?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It really undermines their ability to do well in school. They try incredibly hard, when we look at how much time they spend in the classroom and studying. It's the same as for students who don't have these problems, but their grades suffer, their test scores appear to be lower, and overall their chances of graduating are slimmer. They can barely escape the conditions of poverty long enough to complete their degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Would this matter if they were in school or not?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of what we're seeing here is people who appear to be pushed downward, who are struggling more, because they're also grappling with the high price of higher education. And some of them — including people who, frankly, look middle class — are now struggling with food or housing insecurity because their resources pale in comparison to those high college prices. So they really wouldn't be going through these issues if they weren't in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Many of the schools in the study are community colleges, and they are tasked with one thing: to educate. Are you saying that they need to do more, and why should they?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm not suggesting that colleges become social service agencies, but rather, in support of their main focus — which is to help students graduate — they may need to undertake partnerships and develop resources in conjunction with social service agencies. For example, in K-12 education we don't merely provide free public education. We also have a national school lunch program. We also work with housing authorities to provide subsidized housing to students. We also provide subsidized transportation, so that students can actually get to school. Most of those sorts of things are currently missing in higher education, and they're going to need to be brought to the table if we want people to graduate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aren't they missing because these are ostensibly adults that we're talking about? At a certain point, are we saying, \"You need to provide for yourself\"?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that's mostly right except for one thing. These days, college has become the new high school. It's very difficult to get into the workforce without first getting a degree. So I don't think it's a question of whether we're supporting a child or an adult, but rather whether we're supporting a hardworking, talented person who is trying to become economically sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is the problem getting worse?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We really don't know if the problem is getting worse because no one is systematically collecting data on the same sorts of people at the same colleges over time. There is no good trend data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the conditions that are leading to these problems do appear to be hard, and harder perhaps than they've been in the prior decades. For example, families clearly don't have enough money to live on these days. The social safety net is not nearly as supportive as it used to be. And work is extremely hard to find, particularly good-paying work for part-time workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The full report can be found \u003ca href=\"http://wihopelab.com/publications/Wisconsin-HOPE-Lab-Still-Hungry-and-Homeless.pdf\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2018 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A new survey finds that many students at universities and community colleges are struggling to pay for basic needs — and that's hampering their ability to learn and complete their degrees.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1522953654,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":915},"headData":{"title":"Food, Housing Insecurity May Be Keeping College Students From Graduating | KQED","description":"A new survey finds that many students at universities and community colleges are struggling to pay for basic needs — and that's hampering their ability to learn and complete their degrees.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"126400 https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=126400","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2018/04/03/food-housing-insecurity-may-be-keeping-college-students-from-graduating/","disqusTitle":"Food, Housing Insecurity May Be Keeping College Students From Graduating","source":"Food Banks, Hunger, Volunteer","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/category/food-banks-hunger-volunteer","nprImageCredit":"The Washington Post","nprByline":"Laurel Dalrymple, Selena Simmons-Duffin, NPR Food","nprImageAgency":"The Washington Post/Getty Images","nprStoryId":"599198739","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=599198739&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/04/03/599198739/food-housing-insecurity-may-be-keeping-college-students-from-graduating?ft=nprml&f=599198739","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 03 Apr 2018 17:12:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 03 Apr 2018 16:21:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 03 Apr 2018 16:27:13 -0400","nprAudio":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2018/04/20180403_atc_food_housing_insecurity_may_be_keeping_college_students_from_graduating.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1128&d=245&p=2&story=599198739&ft=nprml&f=599198739","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1599240798-a808c1.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1128&d=245&p=2&story=599198739&ft=nprml&f=599198739","path":"/bayareabites/126400/food-housing-insecurity-may-be-keeping-college-students-from-graduating","audioUrl":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2018/04/20180403_atc_food_housing_insecurity_may_be_keeping_college_students_from_graduating.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1128&d=245&p=2&story=599198739&ft=nprml&f=599198739","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In college, it's hard to learn while you're hungry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a message Temple University higher education policy professor Sara Goldrick-Rab has been getting throughout her career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She self-identifies as a \"scholar activist.\" She has advocated for free college, and in 2013 she founded the \u003ca href=\"http://wihopelab.com/index.html\">Wisconsin HOPE Lab\u003c/a>, which aims to turn research about low-income students into policies that improve equitable outcomes in post-secondary education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the HOPE lab released a new report based on an online survey of more than 40,000 students at 66 community colleges and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the findings: In the past 30 days, 36 percent of university students and 42 percent of community college students felt food insecure, which \"means that students have trouble getting enough to eat on a daily basis,\" Goldrick-Rab says. \"They may go without meals, they may lose weight and they may go without nutritious food.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She spoke with \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em> host Audie Cornish about the report, and the challenges ahead. 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So the only way we can get information about this is by asking colleges' permission to survey their students. This is an area of research that receives almost no funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In our survey, we used the U.S. Department of Agriculture's standardized measure of food security with everybody all over the world. We asked college students the exact same set of questions. We asked them about things that have happened to them in the past 30 days, and the extent to which they agree with statements like: I have not had enough food to eat because of lack of money. I have lost weight because I have not eaten enough. I have skipped meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What's the effect on low-income students?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It really undermines their ability to do well in school. They try incredibly hard, when we look at how much time they spend in the classroom and studying. 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Are you saying that they need to do more, and why should they?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm not suggesting that colleges become social service agencies, but rather, in support of their main focus — which is to help students graduate — they may need to undertake partnerships and develop resources in conjunction with social service agencies. For example, in K-12 education we don't merely provide free public education. We also have a national school lunch program. We also work with housing authorities to provide subsidized housing to students. We also provide subsidized transportation, so that students can actually get to school. Most of those sorts of things are currently missing in higher education, and they're going to need to be brought to the table if we want people to graduate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aren't they missing because these are ostensibly adults that we're talking about? At a certain point, are we saying, \"You need to provide for yourself\"?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that's mostly right except for one thing. These days, college has become the new high school. It's very difficult to get into the workforce without first getting a degree. So I don't think it's a question of whether we're supporting a child or an adult, but rather whether we're supporting a hardworking, talented person who is trying to become economically sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is the problem getting worse?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We really don't know if the problem is getting worse because no one is systematically collecting data on the same sorts of people at the same colleges over time. There is no good trend data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the conditions that are leading to these problems do appear to be hard, and harder perhaps than they've been in the prior decades. For example, families clearly don't have enough money to live on these days. The social safety net is not nearly as supportive as it used to be. And work is extremely hard to find, particularly good-paying work for part-time workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The full report can be found \u003ca href=\"http://wihopelab.com/publications/Wisconsin-HOPE-Lab-Still-Hungry-and-Homeless.pdf\">here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2018 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/126400/food-housing-insecurity-may-be-keeping-college-students-from-graduating","authors":["byline_bayareabites_126400"],"categories":["bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_3032","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_1245"],"tags":["bayareabites_13313","bayareabites_11439"],"featImg":"bayareabites_126401","label":"source_bayareabites_126400"},"bayareabites_121175":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_121175","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"121175","score":null,"sort":[1507056721000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"one-mans-quest-to-feed-a-hungry-isolated-california-county","title":"One Man's Quest To Feed A Hungry, Isolated California County","publishDate":1507056721,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Across the United States, more than one out of every 10 people is \"food insecure,\" which means they don't know where their next meal is coming from. In Trinity County, a sparsely populated area in northwestern California, that number is closer to one in five.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff England, director of the Trinity County Food Bank, is trying to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sun has barely come up in the tiny town of Douglas City, Calif. England and two other men are almost done packing a couple of trucks with food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're loaded to the gills,\" he says, pointing to produce like cabbage, white onions and sweet potatoes, along with packaged and canned foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hop into the cab of the 20-year-old truck with a rattling refrigeration unit, joining England as he begins his monthly food delivery run to the county's hungriest and most isolated residents. He'll drive 230 miles today, 650 by the end of the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I make my trip, because of all the twisty, turny roads, I kinda have to take it a little bit easy,\" he says. Too sharp a turn can upend the pallets of food he's carefully packed for today's 10 1/2 hour drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We pass vehicles that have fallen off the side of the road, abandoned. All around us are thickly-forested mountains, one jagged ridge after another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it was just flattened out completely, with the mountains and everything else, it would be the size of Texas,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"You just go without\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Solid Rock Church in the town of Hayfork, Calif., more than 50 people line up for food which England cobbles together from a spider's web of local, state and federal programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresia Kirkland is volunteering at this event, but she also collects free food, which she often combines in casseroles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Without the food bank you just go without,\" she says. \"I'm on social security, and after you pay all your bills, if you have an emergency — if you have a flat tire or anything that needs to be taken care of — you need to wait till the next month.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That makes for a long month. A long, long month,\" chimes in Glenda Raines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both women say they used to supplement their budgets by taking items to a recycling center in town, but that's closed now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raines says that until recently, she and her husband were homeless, camping out by the creek. \"A friend let us stay in a garage made into a little cabin. I don't know how long that's going to last. I'm still considered homeless.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raines says she prepares the food she receives on a little propane stove. Her husband, Gary, says he's frustrated that there isn't more senior housing, and that a glut of marijuana growers coming into Hayfork are jacking up rents. He says he worked in the sawmill for 17 years when it was still open. When he broke his back, he retired. Now he gets just over $800 a month in social security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Last month I got a $180 ticket for being homeless in the National Forest. I didn't even know that was the law,\" he says, with a slightly bitter laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lack of farmland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the obvious financial struggles of many Trinity County's residents, more than 10 California counties actually have higher poverty rates. But Trinity is one of the state's most food-insecure places. To find out why, I head to what looks like the center of food abundance in Trinity County: the farmers market in Weaverville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sue Corrigan — who founded the market over 20 years ago — is shopping for zucchini, tomatilloes for salsa, and onions for her husband to make onion rings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121177\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/img_7502-55673d46932d2d6dcbf0b84f10e65c04e25dcf71-e1507056524521.jpg\" alt=\"Sue Corrigan manages the farmers market in Weaverville, Calif., where only one Trinity County man is among the farmers selling produce and prepared foods.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121177\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sue Corrigan manages the farmers market in Weaverville, Calif., where only one Trinity County man is among the farmers selling produce and prepared foods. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As she points to one vendor, Corrigan says something surprising: \"This next farmer is our only farmer in the Weaverville area.\" That farmer is the only local of about 10 who are selling produce here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corrigan, whose family had farmland here starting in the 1830s, says that years ago, much of the potential land was taken out of commission. In the 1950s, \"The government was taking our land,\" she says, to build the Trinity Dam, which sends water to Central and Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of our last areas that was open enough to do farming, and they buried it with a lake,\" she says, wistfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's all about priorities, Corrigan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've had three different rushes: First the gold rush, second the timber rush, and now the marijuana rush, which is called the green rush. The focus has been on other industries and not a food-sustainable industry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An isolated county\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One more explanation for Trinity's food insecurity? Isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>England maneuvers around potholes to get to the most remote drop-off point today. He says that last winter, he defied state highway workers and drove over a closed, snow-covered road to deliver food to people who'd been stuck for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I said, 'I have to go.' I slipped, lost traction, gained traction,\" he remembers. \"I just knew they needed the food so I decided to take the chance and I made it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That takes a lot of guts,\" says Lauren Turner. She's come to the food drop-off at the volunteer fire department in the tiny town of Zenia.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Coming up the back of the mountain, they call it Refrigerator Alley for a reason,\" she says. \"It gets pretty slick. So, we're grateful. It's not easy up here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>As for grocery shopping?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Usually it's 100 miles in any direction from here to a large town,\" says Turner. That's more than a two-hour drive, which she makes only once a month. In between, she relies on the Food Bank delivery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We keep the canned good for times when we can't get off the hill, and the fresh food, I get imaginative,\" she says. \"I like to take the veggies and cook them in fruit juice and then I like to put fish on top of them the last 15-20 minutes. Sometime we get frozen fish, so I make a lot of one-pot meals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>England says he and his team have more than doubled the amount of food they're bringing into Trinity County in the last year. The Food Bank and \u003ca href=\"https://www.trinitycountyfoodbank.com/\">Trinity County Food Assistance\u003c/a> deliver one bag or box of food to 2,500 households each month. That's 20 percent of the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>England says the community here is incredibly supportive, but some people have complained that the food bank just enables drug-addicted or homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't judge people, and those druggies have kids. The kids might not get food normally,\" England says, but if the food bank provides, then they do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, if you're hungry, you're hungry. I don't care who you are. You're black, white, Indian, Mexican, fat, skinny, or from out of the county. If you're hungry, you're hungry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's an attitude that comes from personal experience. England says he's been out of work before. \"And I've struggled in the past, a long time ago, with some addiction problems. It just felt so good to be able to go to a place when you're hungry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembers that first meal in a soup kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was in a church. It was spaghetti, garlic bread and a salad,\" and they sent him and others home with cans of soup and chili.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of people don't know what it is to be hungry,\" he explains. \"It's a horrible feeling. You're weak. You can't do anything. You don't have any ambitions. I'm so happy to be able to turn the table,\" he says, and help the people whose shoes he's been in before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was produced in collaboration with the\u003ca href=\"http://thefern.org/\"> Food & Environment Reporting Network\u003c/a>, a non-profit, investigative news organization. Ariel Plotnick helped with research and reporting for this piece. A broadcast version of this story aired on NPR's Here & Now.\u003cbr>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The harsh terrain lacks farmland. And the nearest large grocery store is 100 miles away with sometimes no way to get there. So more residents have come to rely on Jeff England's food bank delivery.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1507056721,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":46,"wordCount":1400},"headData":{"title":"One Man's Quest To Feed A Hungry, Isolated California County | KQED","description":"The harsh terrain lacks farmland. And the nearest large grocery store is 100 miles away with sometimes no way to get there. So more residents have come to rely on Jeff England's food bank delivery.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"121175 https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=121175","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2017/10/03/one-mans-quest-to-feed-a-hungry-isolated-california-county/","disqusTitle":"One Man's Quest To Feed A Hungry, Isolated California County","source":"Food Banks, Hunger, Volunteer","sourceUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/category/food-banks-hunger-volunteer/","nprByline":"Lisa Morehouse, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/nprfood/\">NPR Food\u003c/a>","nprImageAgency":"Lisa Morehouse","nprStoryId":"555056477","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=555056477&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/10/03/555056477/one-mans-quest-to-feed-a-hungry-isolated-california-county?ft=nprml&f=555056477","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 03 Oct 2017 12:11:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 03 Oct 2017 12:11:39 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 03 Oct 2017 12:11:39 -0400","path":"/bayareabites/121175/one-mans-quest-to-feed-a-hungry-isolated-california-county","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Across the United States, more than one out of every 10 people is \"food insecure,\" which means they don't know where their next meal is coming from. In Trinity County, a sparsely populated area in northwestern California, that number is closer to one in five.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff England, director of the Trinity County Food Bank, is trying to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sun has barely come up in the tiny town of Douglas City, Calif. England and two other men are almost done packing a couple of trucks with food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're loaded to the gills,\" he says, pointing to produce like cabbage, white onions and sweet potatoes, along with packaged and canned foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I hop into the cab of the 20-year-old truck with a rattling refrigeration unit, joining England as he begins his monthly food delivery run to the county's hungriest and most isolated residents. He'll drive 230 miles today, 650 by the end of the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I make my trip, because of all the twisty, turny roads, I kinda have to take it a little bit easy,\" he says. Too sharp a turn can upend the pallets of food he's carefully packed for today's 10 1/2 hour drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We pass vehicles that have fallen off the side of the road, abandoned. All around us are thickly-forested mountains, one jagged ridge after another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it was just flattened out completely, with the mountains and everything else, it would be the size of Texas,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\"You just go without\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Solid Rock Church in the town of Hayfork, Calif., more than 50 people line up for food which England cobbles together from a spider's web of local, state and federal programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresia Kirkland is volunteering at this event, but she also collects free food, which she often combines in casseroles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Without the food bank you just go without,\" she says. \"I'm on social security, and after you pay all your bills, if you have an emergency — if you have a flat tire or anything that needs to be taken care of — you need to wait till the next month.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That makes for a long month. A long, long month,\" chimes in Glenda Raines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both women say they used to supplement their budgets by taking items to a recycling center in town, but that's closed now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raines says that until recently, she and her husband were homeless, camping out by the creek. \"A friend let us stay in a garage made into a little cabin. I don't know how long that's going to last. I'm still considered homeless.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raines says she prepares the food she receives on a little propane stove. Her husband, Gary, says he's frustrated that there isn't more senior housing, and that a glut of marijuana growers coming into Hayfork are jacking up rents. He says he worked in the sawmill for 17 years when it was still open. When he broke his back, he retired. Now he gets just over $800 a month in social security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Last month I got a $180 ticket for being homeless in the National Forest. I didn't even know that was the law,\" he says, with a slightly bitter laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lack of farmland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the obvious financial struggles of many Trinity County's residents, more than 10 California counties actually have higher poverty rates. But Trinity is one of the state's most food-insecure places. To find out why, I head to what looks like the center of food abundance in Trinity County: the farmers market in Weaverville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sue Corrigan — who founded the market over 20 years ago — is shopping for zucchini, tomatilloes for salsa, and onions for her husband to make onion rings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121177\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2017/10/img_7502-55673d46932d2d6dcbf0b84f10e65c04e25dcf71-e1507056524521.jpg\" alt=\"Sue Corrigan manages the farmers market in Weaverville, Calif., where only one Trinity County man is among the farmers selling produce and prepared foods.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121177\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sue Corrigan manages the farmers market in Weaverville, Calif., where only one Trinity County man is among the farmers selling produce and prepared foods. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As she points to one vendor, Corrigan says something surprising: \"This next farmer is our only farmer in the Weaverville area.\" That farmer is the only local of about 10 who are selling produce here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corrigan, whose family had farmland here starting in the 1830s, says that years ago, much of the potential land was taken out of commission. In the 1950s, \"The government was taking our land,\" she says, to build the Trinity Dam, which sends water to Central and Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of our last areas that was open enough to do farming, and they buried it with a lake,\" she says, wistfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's all about priorities, Corrigan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've had three different rushes: First the gold rush, second the timber rush, and now the marijuana rush, which is called the green rush. The focus has been on other industries and not a food-sustainable industry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An isolated county\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One more explanation for Trinity's food insecurity? Isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>England maneuvers around potholes to get to the most remote drop-off point today. He says that last winter, he defied state highway workers and drove over a closed, snow-covered road to deliver food to people who'd been stuck for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I said, 'I have to go.' I slipped, lost traction, gained traction,\" he remembers. \"I just knew they needed the food so I decided to take the chance and I made it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That takes a lot of guts,\" says Lauren Turner. She's come to the food drop-off at the volunteer fire department in the tiny town of Zenia.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Coming up the back of the mountain, they call it Refrigerator Alley for a reason,\" she says. \"It gets pretty slick. So, we're grateful. It's not easy up here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>As for grocery shopping?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Usually it's 100 miles in any direction from here to a large town,\" says Turner. That's more than a two-hour drive, which she makes only once a month. In between, she relies on the Food Bank delivery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We keep the canned good for times when we can't get off the hill, and the fresh food, I get imaginative,\" she says. \"I like to take the veggies and cook them in fruit juice and then I like to put fish on top of them the last 15-20 minutes. Sometime we get frozen fish, so I make a lot of one-pot meals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>England says he and his team have more than doubled the amount of food they're bringing into Trinity County in the last year. The Food Bank and \u003ca href=\"https://www.trinitycountyfoodbank.com/\">Trinity County Food Assistance\u003c/a> deliver one bag or box of food to 2,500 households each month. That's 20 percent of the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>England says the community here is incredibly supportive, but some people have complained that the food bank just enables drug-addicted or homeless people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't judge people, and those druggies have kids. The kids might not get food normally,\" England says, but if the food bank provides, then they do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, if you're hungry, you're hungry. I don't care who you are. You're black, white, Indian, Mexican, fat, skinny, or from out of the county. If you're hungry, you're hungry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's an attitude that comes from personal experience. England says he's been out of work before. \"And I've struggled in the past, a long time ago, with some addiction problems. It just felt so good to be able to go to a place when you're hungry.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He remembers that first meal in a soup kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was in a church. It was spaghetti, garlic bread and a salad,\" and they sent him and others home with cans of soup and chili.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of people don't know what it is to be hungry,\" he explains. \"It's a horrible feeling. You're weak. You can't do anything. You don't have any ambitions. I'm so happy to be able to turn the table,\" he says, and help the people whose shoes he's been in before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was produced in collaboration with the\u003ca href=\"http://thefern.org/\"> Food & Environment Reporting Network\u003c/a>, a non-profit, investigative news organization. Ariel Plotnick helped with research and reporting for this piece. A broadcast version of this story aired on NPR's Here & Now.\u003cbr>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/121175/one-mans-quest-to-feed-a-hungry-isolated-california-county","authors":["byline_bayareabites_121175"],"categories":["bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_11028","bayareabites_3032","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_358"],"tags":["bayareabites_13313","bayareabites_248"],"featImg":"bayareabites_121176","label":"source_bayareabites_121175"},"bayareabites_109998":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_109998","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"109998","score":null,"sort":[1465843200000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"mobile-pantries-get-fresh-food-to-where-people-need-it-most","title":"Mobile Pantries Get Fresh Food to Where People Need It Most","publishDate":1465843200,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>School is letting out, and the back parking lot of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.org/laurel\">Laurel Elementary School\u003c/a> in East Oakland bustles with activity. As children stream out of the building, many join their parents and caregivers in line at the bi-monthly mobile food pantry run by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.accfb.org/\">Alameda County Community Food Bank\u003c/a>. Together, the children and adults select apples, oranges, and onions from the produce-only pantry.\u003cspan id=\"more-24801\">\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherrie Lowe, who has two children and a grandchild at Laurel, has been using mobile pantries at the school for three or four years now. For her, the mobile pantry is all about convenience. “You pick up your kids, you pick up your fruit, you pick up your vegetables all at one stop,” she says amidst the lively activity of the pantry line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guillermo Villarreal, whose daughter attends the school as well, also stressed the convenience. He’s heard of a bigger pantry in East Oakland, but says, “It’s so hard to get there when you have no transportation and you have to borrow people’s cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the U.S. produces more than enough food to go around, roughly 48 million Americans—more than 15 percent—live in food-insecure homes, according to a 2014 study by the U.S. hunger relief organization Feeding America. Compounding the problem, between 500,000 and 1 million adults will \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/more-than-500000-adults-will-lose-snap-benefits-in-2016-as-waivers-expire\">lose their SNAP benefits\u003c/a> (formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) over the course of 2016 as their waivers expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As providers of groceries, prepared meals, and nutrition education, food banks serve as a vital lifeline for people unable to access the type or quantity of food they need for a healthy lifestyle. Traditional food banks, however, do not reach everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where mobile food pantries like the one at Laurel Elementary come in. Mobile pantries have been around since the late 1990s, but food bank representatives around the country seem to agree that the trend is growing and will increasingly offer a complement to brick and mortar food distribution locations. Managers point to several reasons for the building momentum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Targeting Need\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-access-research-atlas/documentation.aspx\">Millions of people in America\u003c/a> live in “food deserts,” or areas that lack healthy food providers like grocery stores, farmers’ markets—and in many cases, food banks as well. Because mobile pantries can travel, they can enter these underserved areas and help residents with the logistics of attaining food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Altfest serves as associate director of communications and marketing at the Alameda County Community Food Bank in the San Francisco East Bay, which runs the mobile pantry serving Laurel Elementary and operates mobile pantries in Alameda communities each business day of the month. “There is plenty of food out there,” Altfest says. “The idea behind the mobile pantry is to bring the food to where it is needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alameda County, this often means taking the food to schools where a high percentage of students qualify for free or reduced-priced lunches, Altfest continues. At Laurel Elementary, for example, 80 percent of the students are eligible for subsidized meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All our families are in need to one degree or another,” says Laurel Principal John Stangl, explaining that the fact the mobile food pantry is open to all families at the school, regardless of whether they qualify for free meals, helps “address the stigma and make everybody feel comfortable coming through the line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The targeted strategy seems to be working for Alameda county; over the past year, its mobile program has essentially doubled both its number of distribution sites and the amount of food it distributes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mobile Model Effective in Rural Areas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barbara Ewen, senior director of food programs for \u003ca href=\"http://tafb.org/\">Tarrant Area Food Bank\u003c/a> near Fort Worth, Texas, explains that the mobile model can be similarly effective in rural areas. Although the actual number of food-insecure people is lower in rural areas, Ewen says, they are more spread out and have fewer resources. “Many small towns in Texas don’t have grocery stores, and if they do have grocery stores, they’re expensive,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To improve food access, Tarrant Food Bank has begun sending mobile pantries to familiar locations like schools and fire stations. When they first first rolled out the mobile program, the food bank served roughly 500 households. Ewen says they now serve more than 9,000 households through their mobile pantries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nimbleness of pantries on wheels makes them especially valuable during emergency situations as well, because they can transport food to where people need it most. The Tarrant Area Food Bank provided mobile services following a 2013 tornado in Granburry, Texas, for example. And since finding out that families in Flint, Michigan, were exposed to lead-contaminated water for more than a year, the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan has been using mobile pantries to distribute lead-mitigating foods, particularly those high in calcium, iron, and vitamin C, to impacted residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 828px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/Food-Dsitribution-04.jpg\" alt=\"Photos courtesy of Alameda County Community Food Bank\" width=\"828\" height=\"552\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/Food-Dsitribution-04.jpg 828w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/Food-Dsitribution-04-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/Food-Dsitribution-04-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/Food-Dsitribution-04-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos courtesy of Alameda County Community Food Bank\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Distributing Fresh Food More Efficiently\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross Fraser, director of media relations with Feeding America, says he appreciates the efficiency of mobile pantries, which move food directly from warehouses to the people who need it. Of the 200 food banks in the Feeding America network, Fraser says 170 have set up mobile counterparts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mobile pantries also set themselves apart when it comes to fresh foods. “Since these are refrigerated trucks, we don’t have to worry about getting the food somewhere else with refrigeration,” says Fraser. “You open the doors, and voilà, it’s like a grocery store on wheels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During harvest seasons, this can be particularly useful. The Alameda Community Food Bank receives a lot of peaches, plums and other stone fruit in the summer, managers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In conjunction with seasonal produce, mobile pantry staff and volunteers often find themselves in the position to educate community members about new foods and provide them with recipes. Tarrant mobile pantries have offered a resource on 20 ways to cook beets, for instance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the many benefits, the mobile food bank model does face some challenges. For Tarrant Area Food Bank at least, the model is more expensive, Ewen says. Large, refrigerated trucks are pricey, typically costing well over $100,000 each, by Altfest’s estimates. What’s more, because mobile pantries are often set up outdoors in parking lots, extreme weather can be a barrier in some parts of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, asked whether she sees the model as likely to expand, Ewen didn’t hesitate: “Absolutely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hers is a view others in the food pantry community share. Fraser, for one, believes the model is “steadily growing,” and Altfest says that Alameda would love to continue to expand the mobile program. “Ideally,” he says, “we would have as many access points as needed for people to be able to access the food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ABOUT THE WRITER\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nZoe Loftus-Farren is a Bay Area-based writer and a contributing editor at Earth Island Journal. She holds a J.D. from Berkeley Law and writes about food policy, climate change, and environmental justice.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As food insecurity spikes, food banks are using refrigerated trucks to bring fresh food directly to communities nationwide.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1465860201,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1229},"headData":{"title":"Mobile Pantries Get Fresh Food to Where People Need It Most | KQED","description":"As food insecurity spikes, food banks are using refrigerated trucks to bring fresh food directly to communities nationwide.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"109998 http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=109998","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2016/06/13/mobile-pantries-get-fresh-food-to-where-people-need-it-most/","disqusTitle":"Mobile Pantries Get Fresh Food to Where People Need It Most","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"http://civileats.com/author/zloftusfarren/\">Zoe Loftus-Farren, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/civileat/\">Civil Eats\u003c/a>","path":"/bayareabites/109998/mobile-pantries-get-fresh-food-to-where-people-need-it-most","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>School is letting out, and the back parking lot of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.org/laurel\">Laurel Elementary School\u003c/a> in East Oakland bustles with activity. As children stream out of the building, many join their parents and caregivers in line at the bi-monthly mobile food pantry run by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.accfb.org/\">Alameda County Community Food Bank\u003c/a>. Together, the children and adults select apples, oranges, and onions from the produce-only pantry.\u003cspan id=\"more-24801\">\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherrie Lowe, who has two children and a grandchild at Laurel, has been using mobile pantries at the school for three or four years now. For her, the mobile pantry is all about convenience. “You pick up your kids, you pick up your fruit, you pick up your vegetables all at one stop,” she says amidst the lively activity of the pantry line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guillermo Villarreal, whose daughter attends the school as well, also stressed the convenience. He’s heard of a bigger pantry in East Oakland, but says, “It’s so hard to get there when you have no transportation and you have to borrow people’s cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the U.S. produces more than enough food to go around, roughly 48 million Americans—more than 15 percent—live in food-insecure homes, according to a 2014 study by the U.S. hunger relief organization Feeding America. Compounding the problem, between 500,000 and 1 million adults will \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/more-than-500000-adults-will-lose-snap-benefits-in-2016-as-waivers-expire\">lose their SNAP benefits\u003c/a> (formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) over the course of 2016 as their waivers expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As providers of groceries, prepared meals, and nutrition education, food banks serve as a vital lifeline for people unable to access the type or quantity of food they need for a healthy lifestyle. Traditional food banks, however, do not reach everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where mobile food pantries like the one at Laurel Elementary come in. Mobile pantries have been around since the late 1990s, but food bank representatives around the country seem to agree that the trend is growing and will increasingly offer a complement to brick and mortar food distribution locations. Managers point to several reasons for the building momentum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Targeting Need\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-access-research-atlas/documentation.aspx\">Millions of people in America\u003c/a> live in “food deserts,” or areas that lack healthy food providers like grocery stores, farmers’ markets—and in many cases, food banks as well. Because mobile pantries can travel, they can enter these underserved areas and help residents with the logistics of attaining food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Altfest serves as associate director of communications and marketing at the Alameda County Community Food Bank in the San Francisco East Bay, which runs the mobile pantry serving Laurel Elementary and operates mobile pantries in Alameda communities each business day of the month. “There is plenty of food out there,” Altfest says. “The idea behind the mobile pantry is to bring the food to where it is needed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alameda County, this often means taking the food to schools where a high percentage of students qualify for free or reduced-priced lunches, Altfest continues. At Laurel Elementary, for example, 80 percent of the students are eligible for subsidized meals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All our families are in need to one degree or another,” says Laurel Principal John Stangl, explaining that the fact the mobile food pantry is open to all families at the school, regardless of whether they qualify for free meals, helps “address the stigma and make everybody feel comfortable coming through the line.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The targeted strategy seems to be working for Alameda county; over the past year, its mobile program has essentially doubled both its number of distribution sites and the amount of food it distributes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mobile Model Effective in Rural Areas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barbara Ewen, senior director of food programs for \u003ca href=\"http://tafb.org/\">Tarrant Area Food Bank\u003c/a> near Fort Worth, Texas, explains that the mobile model can be similarly effective in rural areas. Although the actual number of food-insecure people is lower in rural areas, Ewen says, they are more spread out and have fewer resources. “Many small towns in Texas don’t have grocery stores, and if they do have grocery stores, they’re expensive,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To improve food access, Tarrant Food Bank has begun sending mobile pantries to familiar locations like schools and fire stations. When they first first rolled out the mobile program, the food bank served roughly 500 households. Ewen says they now serve more than 9,000 households through their mobile pantries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nimbleness of pantries on wheels makes them especially valuable during emergency situations as well, because they can transport food to where people need it most. The Tarrant Area Food Bank provided mobile services following a 2013 tornado in Granburry, Texas, for example. And since finding out that families in Flint, Michigan, were exposed to lead-contaminated water for more than a year, the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan has been using mobile pantries to distribute lead-mitigating foods, particularly those high in calcium, iron, and vitamin C, to impacted residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_110000\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 828px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/Food-Dsitribution-04.jpg\" alt=\"Photos courtesy of Alameda County Community Food Bank\" width=\"828\" height=\"552\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110000\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/Food-Dsitribution-04.jpg 828w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/Food-Dsitribution-04-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/Food-Dsitribution-04-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/06/Food-Dsitribution-04-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos courtesy of Alameda County Community Food Bank\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Distributing Fresh Food More Efficiently\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross Fraser, director of media relations with Feeding America, says he appreciates the efficiency of mobile pantries, which move food directly from warehouses to the people who need it. Of the 200 food banks in the Feeding America network, Fraser says 170 have set up mobile counterparts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mobile pantries also set themselves apart when it comes to fresh foods. “Since these are refrigerated trucks, we don’t have to worry about getting the food somewhere else with refrigeration,” says Fraser. “You open the doors, and voilà, it’s like a grocery store on wheels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During harvest seasons, this can be particularly useful. The Alameda Community Food Bank receives a lot of peaches, plums and other stone fruit in the summer, managers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In conjunction with seasonal produce, mobile pantry staff and volunteers often find themselves in the position to educate community members about new foods and provide them with recipes. Tarrant mobile pantries have offered a resource on 20 ways to cook beets, for instance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the many benefits, the mobile food bank model does face some challenges. For Tarrant Area Food Bank at least, the model is more expensive, Ewen says. Large, refrigerated trucks are pricey, typically costing well over $100,000 each, by Altfest’s estimates. What’s more, because mobile pantries are often set up outdoors in parking lots, extreme weather can be a barrier in some parts of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, asked whether she sees the model as likely to expand, Ewen didn’t hesitate: “Absolutely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hers is a view others in the food pantry community share. Fraser, for one, believes the model is “steadily growing,” and Altfest says that Alameda would love to continue to expand the mobile program. “Ideally,” he says, “we would have as many access points as needed for people to be able to access the food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ABOUT THE WRITER\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nZoe Loftus-Farren is a Bay Area-based writer and a contributing editor at Earth Island Journal. She holds a J.D. from Berkeley Law and writes about food policy, climate change, and environmental justice.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/109998/mobile-pantries-get-fresh-food-to-where-people-need-it-most","authors":["byline_bayareabites_109998"],"categories":["bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_3032"],"tags":["bayareabites_1602","bayareabites_9531","bayareabites_13313","bayareabites_15497"],"featImg":"bayareabites_109999","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_100839":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_100839","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"100839","score":null,"sort":[1442600270000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"most-people-on-food-stamps-eat-less-nutritious-food-than-everyone-else","title":"Study Finds Most People On Food Stamps Eat Less Nutritious Food Than Everyone Else","publishDate":1442600270,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>The wealth gap in America manifests itself not just in our pocketbooks but also in our bellies: The poor are eating less nutritious food than everyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So concludes a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(15)00226-3/abstract\">review\u003c/a> of 25 studies published between 2003 and 2014 that looked at the food spending and quality of diets of participants in SNAP, the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compared with both higher-income Americans and low-income people eligible but not enrolled in the program, SNAP participants on average ate about the same number of calories. But they consumed fewer fruits and vegetables and whole grains and more added sugars, says \u003ca href=\"https://www.chip.uconn.edu/chipweb/bio.php?id=806\">Tatiana Andreyeva\u003c/a>, the study's lead author and a researcher with the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"SNAP is working to reduce food insecurity. That's the good news,\" Andreyeva tells The Salt. \"One of the major findings is we didn't find any difference in calorie intake. The bad news is that the quality of diet is lower.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a whole, Americans aren't exactly the healthiest eaters – only \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_153500.html\">1 in 10\u003c/a> of us eat enough fruits and vegetables, and much of what \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/05/21/311895781/the-vegetables-most-americans-eat-are-drowning-in-salt-and-fat\">we do eat\u003c/a> are tomatoes and starchy potatoes in the form of pizza and french fries. In the studies Andreyeva reviewed,\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the average American scored just 58 out of 100 – a failing grade – on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/healthyeatingindex\">Healthy Eating Index\u003c/a>, a measure of how well diets meet the federal dietary guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the average food stamp recipient scored even worse: 47 out of 100 in one study, and 51 out 100 in another. Their scores were even lower than what low-income people not in the program got on average: 51 out of 100 in one study and 57 out 100 in the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andreyeva stresses that her findings, which appear in the October issue of the \u003cem>American Journal of Preventive Medicine\u003c/em>, don't mean people on SNAP make particularly bad food choices. Rather, they likely reflect the reality that the people who turn to SNAP for help tend to have the most limited means. Indeed, she found that both adults and children on SNAP were less likely to eat three meals a day than higher-income people not enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's hard to eat healthy on a very limited budget,\" Andreyeva says, especially when the cheapest food is often packed with calories but not necessarily nutrients, and many lack the time and skills to cook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 14.5 percent of Americans — some \u003ca href=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/pd/29SNAPcurrPP.pdf\">46.5 million people\u003c/a> — rely on food stamps. And at a time when more than \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html\">one-third of U.S. adults\u003c/a> are obese, she hopes her research will prompt lawmakers to consider how SNAP can address not just hunger but quality nutrition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the move toward healthier eating habits takes hold among wealthier Americans, Andreyeva worries the poorest among us will get left behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Overall I feel that diets are improving slowly,\" she says. \"My concern is that they're not improving at all or at slower rate among SNAP participants.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take, for example, sugary drink consumption. The studies she looked at came to different conclusions on the question of whether SNAP recipients drink more soda than everyone else. But she notes that \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26303370\">research\u003c/a> published just last month — too late to include in her review – found that people on food stamps got 12 percent of their daily calories from sugary drinks, versus 6 percent for higher-income people. This finding comes even as overall \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/05/16/312823157/will-soda-lovers-drink-to-less-sugar-in-the-can\">soda sales are declining\u003c/a> in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been experimenting with incentive programs to encourage healthier eating habits for people on SNAP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, as \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/11/10/361803607/how-double-bucks-for-food-stamps-conquered-capitol-hill\">we've reported\u003c/a>, the agency is investing $100 million in \u003ca href=\"http://www.doubleupfoodbucks.org/\">Double Up Food Bucks\u003c/a>, a program that doubles the value of SNAP benefits when people use them to buy fruits and vegetables at farmers markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And USDA also helps fund education efforts like \u003ca href=\"http://cookingmatters.org/\">Cooking Matters\u003c/a>. The program teaches low-income families how to cook and shop to get the most nutritional bang for the buck – by buying frozen versus fresh vegetables, for example, or focusing on the price-per-unit rather than the total price when comparing two items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the U.S., hundreds of nutrition education and incentive programs are being implemented, says \u003ca href=\"http://altarum.org/staff/ruth-morgan\">Ruth Morgan\u003c/a>, an analyst with the Altarum Institute who helps evaluate food assistance programs for the USDA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's been a push on USDA side to see what's working. Everyone is reinventing the wheel,\" Morgan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these incentive programs are run by states, so the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service says it's hard to know just how many hungry Americans on SNAP they're reaching. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"People on federal food assistance on average ate fewer fruits and vegetables and had worse diets than other Americans, a study finds. 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But they consumed fewer fruits and vegetables and whole grains and more added sugars, says \u003ca href=\"https://www.chip.uconn.edu/chipweb/bio.php?id=806\">Tatiana Andreyeva\u003c/a>, the study's lead author and a researcher with the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"SNAP is working to reduce food insecurity. That's the good news,\" Andreyeva tells The Salt. \"One of the major findings is we didn't find any difference in calorie intake. The bad news is that the quality of diet is lower.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a whole, Americans aren't exactly the healthiest eaters – only \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_153500.html\">1 in 10\u003c/a> of us eat enough fruits and vegetables, and much of what \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/05/21/311895781/the-vegetables-most-americans-eat-are-drowning-in-salt-and-fat\">we do eat\u003c/a> are tomatoes and starchy potatoes in the form of pizza and french fries. In the studies Andreyeva reviewed,\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the average American scored just 58 out of 100 – a failing grade – on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/healthyeatingindex\">Healthy Eating Index\u003c/a>, a measure of how well diets meet the federal dietary guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the average food stamp recipient scored even worse: 47 out of 100 in one study, and 51 out 100 in another. Their scores were even lower than what low-income people not in the program got on average: 51 out of 100 in one study and 57 out 100 in the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andreyeva stresses that her findings, which appear in the October issue of the \u003cem>American Journal of Preventive Medicine\u003c/em>, don't mean people on SNAP make particularly bad food choices. Rather, they likely reflect the reality that the people who turn to SNAP for help tend to have the most limited means. Indeed, she found that both adults and children on SNAP were less likely to eat three meals a day than higher-income people not enrolled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's hard to eat healthy on a very limited budget,\" Andreyeva says, especially when the cheapest food is often packed with calories but not necessarily nutrients, and many lack the time and skills to cook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 14.5 percent of Americans — some \u003ca href=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/pd/29SNAPcurrPP.pdf\">46.5 million people\u003c/a> — rely on food stamps. And at a time when more than \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html\">one-third of U.S. adults\u003c/a> are obese, she hopes her research will prompt lawmakers to consider how SNAP can address not just hunger but quality nutrition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the move toward healthier eating habits takes hold among wealthier Americans, Andreyeva worries the poorest among us will get left behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Overall I feel that diets are improving slowly,\" she says. \"My concern is that they're not improving at all or at slower rate among SNAP participants.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take, for example, sugary drink consumption. The studies she looked at came to different conclusions on the question of whether SNAP recipients drink more soda than everyone else. But she notes that \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26303370\">research\u003c/a> published just last month — too late to include in her review – found that people on food stamps got 12 percent of their daily calories from sugary drinks, versus 6 percent for higher-income people. This finding comes even as overall \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/05/16/312823157/will-soda-lovers-drink-to-less-sugar-in-the-can\">soda sales are declining\u003c/a> in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been experimenting with incentive programs to encourage healthier eating habits for people on SNAP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, as \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/11/10/361803607/how-double-bucks-for-food-stamps-conquered-capitol-hill\">we've reported\u003c/a>, the agency is investing $100 million in \u003ca href=\"http://www.doubleupfoodbucks.org/\">Double Up Food Bucks\u003c/a>, a program that doubles the value of SNAP benefits when people use them to buy fruits and vegetables at farmers markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And USDA also helps fund education efforts like \u003ca href=\"http://cookingmatters.org/\">Cooking Matters\u003c/a>. The program teaches low-income families how to cook and shop to get the most nutritional bang for the buck – by buying frozen versus fresh vegetables, for example, or focusing on the price-per-unit rather than the total price when comparing two items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the U.S., hundreds of nutrition education and incentive programs are being implemented, says \u003ca href=\"http://altarum.org/staff/ruth-morgan\">Ruth Morgan\u003c/a>, an analyst with the Altarum Institute who helps evaluate food assistance programs for the USDA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's been a push on USDA side to see what's working. Everyone is reinventing the wheel,\" Morgan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these incentive programs are run by states, so the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service says it's hard to know just how many hungry Americans on SNAP they're reaching. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/100839/most-people-on-food-stamps-eat-less-nutritious-food-than-everyone-else","authors":["byline_bayareabites_100839"],"categories":["bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_358"],"tags":["bayareabites_14846","bayareabites_8713","bayareabites_13313","bayareabites_10011","bayareabites_449","bayareabites_2613","bayareabites_11838","bayareabites_11318","bayareabites_8913"],"featImg":"bayareabites_100840","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_87553":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_87553","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"87553","score":null,"sort":[1410890876000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fighting-hunger-with-food-smarts-honoring-hunger-action-month","title":"Fighting Hunger with Food Smarts & Honoring Hunger Action Month","publishDate":1410890876,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 610px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/leahs_pantry_group.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/leahs_pantry_group.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of Leah’s Pantry\" width=\"610\" height=\"407\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87557\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Leah’s Pantry\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Post by Brie Mazurek,\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://www.cuesa.org/article/fighting-hunger-food-smarts\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>CUESA\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem>(9/12/2014)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a city that has nearly 30 farmers markets and the most restaurants per capita nationwide, it may be hard to believe that thousands of adults don’t have access to healthy, nutritious food. Recent reports estimate that as many as \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/blog/2014-01-28/ending-hunger-san-francisco-2020\" target=\"_blank\">225,000 people\u003c/a> are food insecure in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco is a small city, but it’s even smaller for residents that are living in really impoverished circumstances,” says Adrienne Markworth, founder of \u003ca href=\"http://leahspantrysf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Leah’s Pantry\u003c/a>. “They may not go more than a block or two from their SRO (single-room occupancy) hotel or public housing development, where there’s little access to grocery stores or farmers markets and just corner stores with limited fresh fruits and vegetables.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seniors, disabled adults, children, and homeless people are especially vulnerable. Due to the high cost of living in San Francisco, even people living above the poverty level may have trouble making ends meet. CalFresh (California’s food stamp program) is underutilized by thousands of eligible individuals, and 12% of San Francisco residents rely on food pantries according a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/mtgsGrps/FoodSecTaskFrc/docs/FSTF-AssessmentOfFoodSecurityInSF-2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">recent assessment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Long Distances, Small Spaces\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87556\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/leahs_pantry_class.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/leahs_pantry_class.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of Leah’s Pantry\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87556\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Leah’s Pantry\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2006, Markworth started organizing workshops to help homeless women prepare healthy food for their children. She recognized that, despite the fact there were food banks and other services that provide fresh food to low-income individuals and families, closing the food gap also meant ensuring that they had the skills, capacity, and tools to put that food to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they don’t know how to process that butternut squash that they just got for free, it’s not helpful to them,” she says. “You have to get it into their bellies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leah’s Pantry now works statewide to provide nutrition and culinary education for seniors, adults, and children through homeless shelters, public housing, food pantries, and social service agencies, but the organization remains strongly rooted in San Francisco’s Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For SRO residents, barriers to food access occur on many levels. Individuals may have to travel outside their neighborhood to find fresh food and often lack transportation to do so. Seniors and disabled individuals may be challenged by mobility issues. And at home, residents may not have their own kitchen, cooking equipment, or even a sink or full-size fridge, making food storage and preparation difficult. Processed snacks are an easy go-to. They may not be healthy, but they’re readily accessible, have a long shelf life, and require no preparation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With nutrition, kitchen safety, and budget in mind, \u003cstrong>Leah’s Pantry’s Food Smarts\u003c/strong> classes empower individuals to cook from scratch with limited resources, equipment, and space. “We’re trying to break down some of those functional barriers,” says Markworth. “It’s about finding that balance of creating safe, successful ways to integrate more cooking, and making sure people have the resources and materials to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Building Kitchen Confidence\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87558\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/leahs_pantry_knives.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/leahs_pantry_knives.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of Leah’s Pantry\" width=\"250\" height=\"323\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87558\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Leah’s Pantry\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Engaging individuals on a personal level is key, which is why all Food Smarts classes begin with participants discussing their family food history, including what foods they ate as a child. “That’s what gets people’s imaginations revved up,” says Markworth. “They remember the taste of that sweet potato pie that they grew up eating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classes help participants think in terms of simple recipes and three-day meal plans, so that when they buy a head of celery, they can feel confident it will all be put to good use. “When cooking from scratch, there are all these elements of risk that can potentially waste resources that someone might not have,” she says. “A lot of them have precious little energy to try something new and different. We don’t want them to feel like they’re a failure if they’re trying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fall, the organization is working with Heart of the City Farmers Market to launch \u003ca href=\"https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-tenderloin-cooking-school-cookbook/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>The Tenderloin Cooking School: Smart Meals for Small Spaces\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a collection of stories and simple, inexpensive recipes from Tenderloin residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Capturing stories about food and even food insecurity is important work,” says Markworth. “It’s not just stats. Looking at hunger issue from a human story perspective will speak to all of us that are engaged in food justice and food equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Nourishing Communities\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87555\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/leahs_pantry_chopping.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/leahs_pantry_chopping.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of Leah’s Pantry\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87555\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Leah’s Pantry\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the broader Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://18reasons.org/cooking-matters\" target=\"_blank\">18 Reasons’ Cooking Matters\u003c/a> program (an offshoot of the national \u003ca href=\"http://www.nokidhungry.org/programs\" target=\"_blank\">Share Our Strength program\u003c/a>) also offers six-week nutrition classes in schools, community centers, health centers, and housing sites to get low-income parents, kids, teens, and seniors cooking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Program director Emily Geis says she generally encounters three main issues in her work educating people about from-scratch cooking: the perceived cost of fresh foods, time limitations, and lack of know-how. To tackle these hurdles, volunteer instructors guide participants in nutrition and meal planning, as well as the basics and benefits of shopping seasonally, properly storing fruits and vegetables, buying in bulk, and utilizing leftovers to minimize waste. The group also takes a field trip to a grocery store or farmers market to strategize on how to stretch their food dollar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each class concludes with making and enjoying a meal together. “That’s the exciting thing,” says Geis. “Our participants are able to see that we made a delicious, filling, healthy meal in less than 45 minutes, and they think to themselves, ‘I could do this at home.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the curriculum is only one essential ingredient in the classes. By sharing their wide range of cooking knowledge and food experiences with each other, participants nourish and empower the whole group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes we’ll have someone who has never cut an onion in their life, and then we’ll have someone else who is seventy years old and been cooking all of her life, who can share her knowledge with the rest of the class,” says Geis. “We meet everybody where they’re at, then work together to learn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Events\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Join CUESA in honoring \u003ca href=\"http://hungeractionmonth.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Hunger Action Month\u003c/a>. Learn more about local hunger issues at our \u003ca href=\"http://www.cuesa.org/event/feeding-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">Feeding San Francisco\u003c/a> discussion Tuesday, September 16. Saturday, September 20, come to the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market for \u003ca href=\"http://www.cuesa.org/event/waste-not-want-not-day\" target=\"_blank\">Waste Not, Want Not Day\u003c/a> to meet local organizations like Cooking Matters, find out how you can reduce food waste at home, and participate in CUESA's fresh produce drive.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Recent reports estimate that as many as 225,000 people are food insecure in San Francisco. Learn about the efforts of Leah's Pantry that provides Food Smarts classes for residents coping with food insecurity. Honor Hunger Action Month by attending events discussing hunger in the Bay Area.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1410891114,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1138},"headData":{"title":"Fighting Hunger with Food Smarts & Honoring Hunger Action Month | KQED","description":"Recent reports estimate that as many as 225,000 people are food insecure in San Francisco. Learn about the efforts of Leah's Pantry that provides Food Smarts classes for residents coping with food insecurity. Honor Hunger Action Month by attending events discussing hunger in the Bay Area.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"87553 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=87553","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/09/16/fighting-hunger-with-food-smarts-honoring-hunger-action-month/","disqusTitle":"Fighting Hunger with Food Smarts & Honoring Hunger Action Month","path":"/bayareabites/87553/fighting-hunger-with-food-smarts-honoring-hunger-action-month","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 610px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/leahs_pantry_group.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/leahs_pantry_group.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of Leah’s Pantry\" width=\"610\" height=\"407\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87557\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Leah’s Pantry\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Post by Brie Mazurek,\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://www.cuesa.org/article/fighting-hunger-food-smarts\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>CUESA\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem>(9/12/2014)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a city that has nearly 30 farmers markets and the most restaurants per capita nationwide, it may be hard to believe that thousands of adults don’t have access to healthy, nutritious food. Recent reports estimate that as many as \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/blog/2014-01-28/ending-hunger-san-francisco-2020\" target=\"_blank\">225,000 people\u003c/a> are food insecure in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco is a small city, but it’s even smaller for residents that are living in really impoverished circumstances,” says Adrienne Markworth, founder of \u003ca href=\"http://leahspantrysf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Leah’s Pantry\u003c/a>. “They may not go more than a block or two from their SRO (single-room occupancy) hotel or public housing development, where there’s little access to grocery stores or farmers markets and just corner stores with limited fresh fruits and vegetables.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seniors, disabled adults, children, and homeless people are especially vulnerable. Due to the high cost of living in San Francisco, even people living above the poverty level may have trouble making ends meet. CalFresh (California’s food stamp program) is underutilized by thousands of eligible individuals, and 12% of San Francisco residents rely on food pantries according a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/mtgsGrps/FoodSecTaskFrc/docs/FSTF-AssessmentOfFoodSecurityInSF-2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">recent assessment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Long Distances, Small Spaces\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87556\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/leahs_pantry_class.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/leahs_pantry_class.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of Leah’s Pantry\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87556\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Leah’s Pantry\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2006, Markworth started organizing workshops to help homeless women prepare healthy food for their children. She recognized that, despite the fact there were food banks and other services that provide fresh food to low-income individuals and families, closing the food gap also meant ensuring that they had the skills, capacity, and tools to put that food to use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they don’t know how to process that butternut squash that they just got for free, it’s not helpful to them,” she says. “You have to get it into their bellies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leah’s Pantry now works statewide to provide nutrition and culinary education for seniors, adults, and children through homeless shelters, public housing, food pantries, and social service agencies, but the organization remains strongly rooted in San Francisco’s Tenderloin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For SRO residents, barriers to food access occur on many levels. Individuals may have to travel outside their neighborhood to find fresh food and often lack transportation to do so. Seniors and disabled individuals may be challenged by mobility issues. And at home, residents may not have their own kitchen, cooking equipment, or even a sink or full-size fridge, making food storage and preparation difficult. Processed snacks are an easy go-to. They may not be healthy, but they’re readily accessible, have a long shelf life, and require no preparation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With nutrition, kitchen safety, and budget in mind, \u003cstrong>Leah’s Pantry’s Food Smarts\u003c/strong> classes empower individuals to cook from scratch with limited resources, equipment, and space. “We’re trying to break down some of those functional barriers,” says Markworth. “It’s about finding that balance of creating safe, successful ways to integrate more cooking, and making sure people have the resources and materials to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Building Kitchen Confidence\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87558\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/leahs_pantry_knives.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/leahs_pantry_knives.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of Leah’s Pantry\" width=\"250\" height=\"323\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87558\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Leah’s Pantry\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Engaging individuals on a personal level is key, which is why all Food Smarts classes begin with participants discussing their family food history, including what foods they ate as a child. “That’s what gets people’s imaginations revved up,” says Markworth. “They remember the taste of that sweet potato pie that they grew up eating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classes help participants think in terms of simple recipes and three-day meal plans, so that when they buy a head of celery, they can feel confident it will all be put to good use. “When cooking from scratch, there are all these elements of risk that can potentially waste resources that someone might not have,” she says. “A lot of them have precious little energy to try something new and different. We don’t want them to feel like they’re a failure if they’re trying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fall, the organization is working with Heart of the City Farmers Market to launch \u003ca href=\"https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-tenderloin-cooking-school-cookbook/\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>The Tenderloin Cooking School: Smart Meals for Small Spaces\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a collection of stories and simple, inexpensive recipes from Tenderloin residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Capturing stories about food and even food insecurity is important work,” says Markworth. “It’s not just stats. Looking at hunger issue from a human story perspective will speak to all of us that are engaged in food justice and food equity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Nourishing Communities\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87555\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/leahs_pantry_chopping.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/leahs_pantry_chopping.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of Leah’s Pantry\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87555\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Leah’s Pantry\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the broader Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://18reasons.org/cooking-matters\" target=\"_blank\">18 Reasons’ Cooking Matters\u003c/a> program (an offshoot of the national \u003ca href=\"http://www.nokidhungry.org/programs\" target=\"_blank\">Share Our Strength program\u003c/a>) also offers six-week nutrition classes in schools, community centers, health centers, and housing sites to get low-income parents, kids, teens, and seniors cooking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Program director Emily Geis says she generally encounters three main issues in her work educating people about from-scratch cooking: the perceived cost of fresh foods, time limitations, and lack of know-how. To tackle these hurdles, volunteer instructors guide participants in nutrition and meal planning, as well as the basics and benefits of shopping seasonally, properly storing fruits and vegetables, buying in bulk, and utilizing leftovers to minimize waste. The group also takes a field trip to a grocery store or farmers market to strategize on how to stretch their food dollar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each class concludes with making and enjoying a meal together. “That’s the exciting thing,” says Geis. “Our participants are able to see that we made a delicious, filling, healthy meal in less than 45 minutes, and they think to themselves, ‘I could do this at home.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the curriculum is only one essential ingredient in the classes. By sharing their wide range of cooking knowledge and food experiences with each other, participants nourish and empower the whole group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes we’ll have someone who has never cut an onion in their life, and then we’ll have someone else who is seventy years old and been cooking all of her life, who can share her knowledge with the rest of the class,” says Geis. “We meet everybody where they’re at, then work together to learn.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Events\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Join CUESA in honoring \u003ca href=\"http://hungeractionmonth.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Hunger Action Month\u003c/a>. Learn more about local hunger issues at our \u003ca href=\"http://www.cuesa.org/event/feeding-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">Feeding San Francisco\u003c/a> discussion Tuesday, September 16. 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USDA says that despite the drop in unemployment, the number of food insecure Americans has not declined because higher food prices and inflation last year offset the benefits of a brighter job market. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images \" width=\"1798\" height=\"1198\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87114\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People shop in a Miami grocery store on July 8. USDA says that despite the drop in unemployment, the number of food insecure Americans has not declined because higher food prices and inflation last year offset the benefits of a brighter job market. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/2100470/pam-fessler\" target=\"_blank\">Pam Fessler\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/09/03/345537318/millions-struggle-to-get-enough-to-eat-despite-jobs-returning\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (9/3/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of U.S. families that struggled to get enough to eat last year was essentially unchanged from the year before, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's \u003ca href=\"http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err-economic-research-report/err173.aspx#.VAcVaaM_vjs\">latest report\u003c/a> on \"food security.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency says that about 17.5 million families — or 1 in 7 — were food insecure last year. That means that at some point during the year, the household had trouble feeding all of its members. In 2012, the number was 17.6 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of households experiencing what the government calls \"very low food security\" — which means people actually miss meals or cut back their intake because they don't have enough money for food — was also essentially unchanged last year at 6.8 million households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-hunger groups say the fact that so many families are still struggling to put enough food on the table, even as the economy improves, is a sign that more needs to be done to help them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These startling numbers prove there has been no true economic recovery for tens of millions of struggling U.S. families,\" Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, said in a \u003ca href=\"https://nyccah.org/node/1716\">statement\u003c/a>. \"It is clearer than ever that we need a massive new government jobs program, a significant increase in the minimum wage and a robust increase in the federal nutrition safety net program.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>USDA sociologist \u003ca href=\"http://www.ers.usda.gov/ers-staff-directory/alisha-coleman-jensen.aspx\">Alisha Coleman-Jensen\u003c/a>, an author of the report, says the numbers have not declined as much as one might expect with a drop in unemployment, because higher food prices and inflation last year offset the benefits of a brighter job market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She notes that over a two-year period, the drop in the percentage of struggling families was statistically significant — from 14.9 percent in 2011 to 14.3 percent last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the level of food insecurity remains much higher than it was before the recession. In 2007, about 11 percent of households struggled to get enough to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other highlights from the report:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>One bright spot was a big decline in the number of families with very low food security among children. That means that at least one child in the household was hungry, skipped a meal or didn't eat for an entire day because there wasn't enough money for food. In 2012, the number was 463,000. Last year, it was 360,000.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Children in about 3.8 million households did not receive adequate, nutritious food at some point during the year. That's down slightly from 2012.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Sixty-two percent of food-insecure families reported that they received some federal food aid, such as SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits, formerly known as food stamps. In 2012, the percentage was 59 percent. Anti-hunger groups note that the impact of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/18/223627228/house-bill-would-cut-40-billion-from-food-stamp-program\">SNAP cuts\u003c/a> that went into effect late last year are not reflected in this report.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The rate of food insecurity varied greatly depending on the race or ethnicity of the head of the household — 10.6 percent of white households struggled to get enough to eat, compared with 26.1 percent of black households and 23.7 percent of Hispanic households.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>More than a third of families headed by single women with children were food insecure.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Families were more likely to struggle with food if they were living in cities or rural areas, rather than in suburbs.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The number of food insecure Americans did not decline between 2012 and 2013, according to the USDA. 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