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Después de 16 meses en centros de detención de inmigrantes en California y Texas, José Rubén Hernández Gómez regresó a la casa de su familia en Lodi en abril, caminando con un bastón y diciendo que sufre de problemas neurológicos y pesadillas persistentes. El hombre de 33 años, nacido...
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Justo Robles CalMatters After 16 months in immigration detention facilities in California and Texas, Jose Ruben Hernandez Gomez returned to his family home in Lodi in April, walking with a cane and saying he suffers from neurological problems and persistent nightmares. The 33-year old Mexican-born man — who from...
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For millions of children, the start of the summer season is a time for recreation, outdoor activities, visits to the beach and much more. But for millions of them, especially Latino children from low-income families, the summer represents one of the times of greatest nutritional insufficiency because they lose...
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Peter Schurmann Ethnic Media Services From the shores of Greece to the US southern border, across Turkey, North Africa and along the length of the America’s, the flow of humanity fleeing war, violence, poverty, and hunger is rising year-by-year. And, experts say, government policies are exacerbating this growing humanitarian...
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Food banks across California are bracing for a feared spike in hunger amid inflated prices after a pandemic-era boost in food aid ends in April. March is the last month CalFresh recipients will get the additional benefits, as the federal government cuts off the “emergency allotments”...
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Local nonprofits in the Bay Area are tackling hunger in low-income neighborhoods by stocking corner stores and “community fridges” around town with free healthy meals. The HOPE Collaborative in Oakland has received a $5,500 grant to help with this effort, from the Health, Environment, Agriculture and Labor Food Alliance – known as...
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Jenny Manrique Ethnic Media Services Los conflictos, el cambio climático y ahora la COVID-19 son las tres C’s que están llevando a la hambruna a 270 millones de personas en los lugares más empobrecidos de Asia, Oriente Medio, África, Centroamérica y América Latina. Funcionarios del Programa Mundial de Alimentos...
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Jenny Manrique Ethnic Media Services Conflicts, climate change and now COVID-19 are the three C’s driving 270 million people to famine in the most impoverished countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Central and Latin America. Officials at the World Food Program (WFP), the hunger relief arm of the...
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Millones de personas en todo el país padecen hambre. Y la pandemia de COVID-19 ha empujado a más estadounidenses a esta posición vulnerable. Antes de que comenzara la crisis del COVID-19, una de cada nueve personas, incluidos 10 millones de niños, ya vivía en un hogar con inseguridad alimentaria....