Baltimore is using $90.4 million in federal funding to create emergency housing and other housing assistance programs, Mayor Brandon Scott announced Tuesday. The majority of the funds are drawn from the city’s $641 million COVID-19 relief money and mark the largest dollar amount the city has spent on homeless services. The Mayor’s Office of Homeless […]
A slow cooker is one of the handiest appliances and biggest time savers to have in the kitchen. Pile in chopped vegetables, add prepped meat and seasoning, and in a few hours, a week’s worth of food or one family-size meal is ready to eat. (An Instant Pot can also be used as a slow […]
One Sunday evening shortly after Christmas 2019, Amy Ard received an email. “Wondering what resources are available to a young woman that’s pregnant (did not know until after her arrest),” it said. The message continued: This woman had no money, wasn’t in contact with her family, and was still in jail awaiting her hearing. Could […]
Our paychecks are evaporating at the supermarket. Overall prices are up more than 6 percent in the last year, according to the Consumer Price Index, and it’s not looking like they will come back down. Dairy products, processed fruits and vegetables, sugar and sweets and nonalcoholic beverages are expected to climb this year. Read more. […]
Growing up in North Philadelphia’s Hunting Park neighborhood, Barbie Izquierdo knew that the way she and her family lived wasn’t “normal.” Her Cuban-born father served time in prison for the first 10 years of her life, and her mother suffered from mental health issues that precluded her from working. Izquierdo and her older brother survived […]
First Jill Carey and her children got sick. Then they got hungry. When the family came down with Covid-19 in early December, Carey’s son and daughter had to isolate at their home in Pennsylvania for two weeks. That meant missing school — and the reduced-price lunches the kids rely on. America’s low-income families, already burdened […]
It’s hard to stick to your grocery budget without cheap dinner ideas, and that’s where this list of hearty, flavorful meals from our Dinner and Change series comes in. We went through each ingredient list to calculate the total based on prices at the biggest grocery store chain in the country; all of these dinners […]
Just after Thanksgiving, Carmen Allen became alarmed by the jump in prices and shortages of food products at her local grocery stores. “Cake mix,” Allen says. “I was worried I wouldn’t find enough of it to give out in our food baskets.” Allen serves as president and executive director of Beyond the Sanctuary, a nonprofit […]
Governor Larry Hogan today announced that his Fiscal Year 2023 budget will include historic investments in public health, including record funding for the state’s local health departments. The budget will also expand support for 50,000 low-income children and 27,000 seniors in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), while providing additional resources for food banks and […]
If you are a Veteran who is homeless or at risk of becoming homeless due to financial hardship, unemployment, addiction, depression, or transition from jail, VA Maryland health care can help you. Contact a homeless services care coordinator to get help. Read more. […]
