Although the longest federal government shutdown in our nation’s history has formally ended, and payments to the one in eight U.S. residents who rely on the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) have resumed, the problem of hunger in America remains unsolved.
Kids are still going hungry, inflation is out of control and the food-assistance policies that Americans overwhelmingly back have been tossed aside in favor of cold-blooded partisan maneuvering.
Unfortunately, we have learned this hard lesson at least once before. During the slow and anemic government response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the organization I head, One Fair Wage, launched an emergency relief fund that quickly raised $23 million in emergency aid to restaurant and gig workers who suddenly lost income…