Southern Maryland Sierra Club Partners with Rotary Club of Lexington Park to Fight Food Insecurity

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Southern Maryland Sierra Club and the Rotary Club of Lexington Park are proud to announce a partnership to help address issues of food insecurity in St. Mary’s County. Since 2020, the Southern Maryland Sierra Club has been working with local houses of worship and non-profits around the region to build vegetable gardens to provide fresh, […]

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Food Insecurity Becoming a National Health Problem That Physicians Can Help

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The organization has published a new position paper outlining six recommendations to tackle food insecurity that leads to nutrition insecurity, which in turn affects diet-related conditions such as diabetes, obesity, coronary artery disease, certain types of cancer and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. In medicine, there is a growing understanding that social drivers of health affect the health […]

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Food Stamps: What Is the Most Money You Can Make To Qualify?

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In 2019, 35.7 million people relied on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to eat, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, but enrollment had been steadily declining since 2013. That trend went out the window when the pandemic reversed the tide and swelled the rolls of America’s largest food-security program to 41.5 million in […]

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Montgomery County Scraps Proposed Lunch Debt Policy That Would Provide Students With ‘Alternate’ Meals

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The Montgomery County Board of Education finalized a new policy Tuesday that manages student school lunch debt, and it removes a proposed penalty that would have provided students who owe money with a different meal from their peers. The board voted unanimously in favor of the new policy, which will be in effect beginning July […]

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5 Cheap, Versatile Foods to Stock Up On Now (and What to Make With Them)

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Wait, what? If you’re like us, you’ve probably said those words at the grocery checkout recently. Staples like eggs and milk continue to get more expensive (egg prices were up 92% between March and April, according to a Food Institute analysis of USDA data). Peanut butter is getting recalled and things like sugar, beef and […]

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Maryland Food Bank Pilots Programs Targeting Job Insecurity, Food Access

Food Bank, Bags of Fresh Produce.

The Maryland Food Bank has launched pilot programs targeting unemployment and underemployment, two of the leading causes of food insecurity, and increasing access to healthy, shelf-stable items, the organization said Tuesday. Using a grant from the group Feeding America, the Workforce Development Partnerships program connects Baltimore-area residents with social services and job training in industries […]

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