Just Getting By Film Tour
Vermont documentary filmmaker Bess O’Brien is touring her new film Just Getting By focused on food and housing security to towns across Vermont in March and April.
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03, 2024
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09, 2021
We Can Solve Hunger in Vermont
The USDA’s September 8 report showing that food insecurity in the United States for the year 2020 remained level, as compared pre-pandemic 2019 numbers, shows that with adequate federal and state government support we can solve hunger in Vermont, and across the nation.
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06, 2018
As summer begins and school lunches end, one in four kids in Vermont are at risk of hunger
As summer begins and school lunches end, one in four kids in Vermont are at risk of hunger With schools letting out and summer break beginning, kids throughout the state are preparing to spend their days playing in the sun, swimming in lakes, and packing as much fun into the long, sunny days as possible. [...]
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05, 2018
Older adults face hunger at a higher rate today than before the great recession despite economic improvements Two-thirds of Food-Insecure Seniors Have Incomes Above Poverty Line BARRE – May 24, 2018 – The Vermont Foodbank announced today the release of The State of Senior Hunger in America in 2016, a study about food insecurity among [...]
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04, 2018
Food to Learn by
Food to Learn by a guest blog post by Vermont Foodbank Board Member, Joe Zuaro During our lives, we experience many transitions. Â For many of us, these transitions involve a stint in the classroom. Â Perhaps we are returning to school to improve our future job prospects in order to better provide for our family. Â Maybe [...]
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11, 2017
In response to the question of “double dipping”, a post by CEO John Sayles
November 21, 2017 - Our neighbors who visit any of the 120 food shelves around Vermont are trying their best to reach their full human potential. Some of you may have seen a piece on Channel 3, WCAX News, exploring viewers' questions about giving to local food shelves and whether visitors to the 120 food [...]