“Western Pennsylvania nonprofits are hustling to blunt a clamp-down this spring on food stamp benefits, promoting volunteer work and other provisions that can keep low-income households eligible for the aid. […]
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“Western Pennsylvania nonprofits are hustling to blunt a clamp-down this spring on food stamp benefits, promoting volunteer work and other provisions that can keep low-income households eligible for the aid. […]
“We want our legislators to live up to their promises to voters and to the compromise budget their leaders and Gov. Tom Wolf agreed to. And we don’t want to […]
A three-month time limit on food stamps for unemployed or underemployed adults ages 18 to 50 who aren’t disabled or raising minor children will apply to most of Allegheny County […]
Many people are eager to give back during the holiday season, collecting toys for children in low-income families or serving Christmas dinner at a soup kitchen… But some of the […]
About 30,000 people in Pennsylvania could lose their food stamp benefits early next year — about 8,000 of them in Allegheny County — due to the return of a three-month […]
It was 2004, and the hunger advocacy and policy group, Just Harvest, realized it had a problem. It had been working for the past 18 years to put healthy food […]
Larimer is a neighborhood of opposites: Sitting on the southern border is the booming Bakery Square development, filled with shops, restaurants and Pittsburgh’s Google offices, a glowing symbol of the […]
While hunger rates remain high in Pennsylvania, Governor Tom Wolf has issued an executive order to re-commit to the fight against hunger. Emily Cleath, communications coordinator for Just Harvest, a […]
Along with other assimilation issues, immigrants and refugees arriving in a new country sometimes don’t know where to find healthy foods, or they don’t have good sources for foods they recognize from […]
Penn Hills is one of six Allegheny County communities to participate in the Fresh Corners pilot program, which will bring fresh produce closer to people who don’t have quick access […]