Tag: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

Deliberately making hungry people hungrier is unacceptable

On By Dave BuerstettaIn Christianity, Justice, Politics, poverty1 Comment

Note: This post was originally published on the Bread Blog. Have you ever been hungry? I mean, Really. Hungry. As in no-food-in-the-house-and-no-resources-for-getting-more hungry? I haven’t. Oh sure, there’ve been some months when expenses were bigger than income and I didn’t know how to pay some bills. But I’ve always had support - financial and otherwise …

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2000 and 6%

On By Dave BuerstettaIn Christianity, Justice, povertyLeave a comment

At the end of last year I wrote about why my wife, Joann, and I support Bread for the World. Today, I think I can sum up our advocacy with and for Bread in two numbers: 2000 6% 2000 isn't much of a revelation. Along with others, I've been sharing that number for years. 2000 …

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