Why Hunger Drives Human Ingenuity
Hunger isn’t just driving you to get that double bacon cheeseburger at Five Guys - it’s also been a main force behind all of civilization. Columbia's Ruth DeFries talks about the unexpected ways our...
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Yes, We Can Stop Manspreading
New York's MTA highlighted the egregious, seat-hogging tactic colloquially known as 'manspreading' in its etiquette campaign earlier this year.Now, as part of the annual Canstruction competition,...
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‘Top Chef’ Tom Colicchio on America’s staggering waste of food
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: But first: Roughly 70 billion pounds of food is wasted annually in the United States.The “NewsHour”‘s Lisa Desjardins is back from maternity leave, and...
View Article50 – An Unexpected Kitchen: The George Foreman Grill
Sometimes life without a kitchen leads to the most unexpected hidden kitchen of all—the George Foreman Grill. How immigrants and homeless people without official kitchens use the George Foreman Grill,...
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Meet the couple on a mission to end hunger in their town
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: One Massachusetts couple is on a mission to end hunger in their town of Framingham about 20 miles outside of Boston.As Tina Martin from PBS member...
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A growing, catastrophic food crisis sows unrest in Venezuela
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: In Caracas, today, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans turned out to protest against President Nicolas Maduro’s government and called for an end to...
View ArticleHunger Inspires Teens to Help Community
Almost 10 million children between the ages of 10 and 17 in this country are food insecure, meaning they don't have reliable access to enough nutritious food.Teenagers handle hunger differently than...
View Article'Beefing Up' NYC's Emergency Food Supply
Since SNAP benefits were reduced in 2013, Triada Stampas, vice president for research and public affairs at the Food Bank for New York City, talks about the increased traffic at food banks and soup...
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Column: The shocking amount of leftover turkey that ends up in landfills
An early Thanksgiving meal is served to the homeless at the Los Angeles Mission in California. Photo by Mario Anzuoni/Reuters.As part of a long-standing White House tradition, President Barack Obama...
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Facing war and hunger, momentum for women’s rights slows in Yemen
A girl sits in a landfill, where people collect recyclables and other trash, on the outskirts of Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, on Nov. 16. Photo by Mohamed al-Sayaghi/ReutersIn Yemen, where forces...
View ArticleCommunity College Students Struggle With Hunger, Homelessness
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.Community colleges are typically the most affordable way into the nation’s higher education system, but a new report out today shows that...
View ArticleU.N. Warns of Crisis as Five Nations Teeter on the Brink of Starvation
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.In 2011, famine ripped across Somalia and killed 260,000 people, half of whom were young children. Drought, coupled with years of poverty and...
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Here’s how states are working to curb food waste
Every day, American families throw out tons of spoiled food — or food they think is spoiled because they misunderstand “sell by” labels. Restaurants dispose of usable leftovers, and farmers toss...
View ArticleGoing Hungry in New York City
The White House budget proposal includes drastic cuts to food assistance, in the name of compassion for taxpayers. Triada Stampas, vice president for research and public affairs at the Food Bank for...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: Ramadan Begins, Going Hungry in NYC, 100 Years After WWI
In case you missed them, hear three of our favorite segments from the week:First Week of Fasting for Ramadan (First) | Politics' Impact on NYC Hunger (Starts 23:14) | 100 Years After WWI (Starts 48:48)...
View ArticleHunger and Obesity: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. The number of people in the United States who are "food insecure" has risen sharply in the past few decades, with 48 million Americans going...
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The challenge of reaching hungry kids when school is out
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: For American children, summer is supposed to be a time of fun and games, but, for many, it is also a time of true need.During the school year, roughly 22...
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Twitter chat: What it means to be hungry in America
The PBS NewsHour will host a Twitter chat on hunger in America at 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 3. Photo by Flickr/ConwayL.Nearly 50 million Americans struggle to put food on the the table. In 2015, 5 percent...
View ArticleVenezuelan Government Covers Up Hunger Crisis
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segmentThe economic crisis in Venezuela has led to severe malnutrition.For years doctors have been seeing hundreds of deaths due to starvation. According...
View ArticleWhy America's Fight To End Hunger is Failing
Andrew Fisher, who has worked in the anti-hunger field for twenty years as an executive director, researcher, policy advocate, and coalition builder, discusses his new book Big Hunger: The Unholy...
View ArticleThe Failure to Feed America, Our First Film Town, A Border Update
Andrew Fisher, who has worked in the anti-hunger field for twenty years as an executive director, researcher, policy advocate, and coalition builder, discusses his new book Big Hunger: The Unholy...
View ArticleChange-Makers: 40 Years of Community Organizing in Williamsburg
As part of our Change-Makers Series, Felice Kirby joins us to discuss her forty years of activism in the Williamsburg/Greenpoint neighborhoods. She is the special projects director for the North...
View ArticleReveal Presents: The View from Room 205
In 2014, WBEZ Chicago reporter Linda Lutton followed a class of fourth-graders at William Penn Elementary School on Chicago’s West Side. She wanted to explore a big idea that’s at the heart of the...
View ArticleNumber of New Yorkers Unable to Afford Enough Food Decreases
The number of New York City residents unable to buy enough food has significantly decreased over the past six years, according to a new report from Hunger Free America.It's down from 1.4 to 1.1 million...
View ArticleFarming While Black
Leah Penniman, co-director and program manager of Soul Fire Farm and author of Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land, talks about how racial disparities in...
View ArticleHunger and Homelessness Can Be Hidden Costs of Higher Education
The rising cost of college has been at the heart of conversations about higher education, but now colleges and universities are beginning to take note of other, more hidden costs that many students...
View ArticleNatalie Diaz Talks Love and Basketball
2018 MacArthur Genius winner Natalie Diaz talks about going from a professional basketball player to a poet, and how her love of language helped her embrace her queerness.— Natalie Diaz is a poet,...
View ArticleAre Seniors Getting Fed?
In normal times 1 in 10 seniors face hunger. Since the pandemic started, the reality has gotten much starker.Kathryn Garcia, currently serving as New York City's emergency food czar, talks about the...
View ArticleA Portrait of Hunger in New York
In March, when the pandemic hit New York, Sharmila Moonga was living on her own in Jackson Heights, with a disability, when her food ran out."There were times when I thought I'd knock on the door or...
View ArticleIn Brownsville, A Kitchen Springs Into Action To Feed The Hungry
After $150,000 worth of catering contracts went down the drain, a Brownsville businesswoman and her team looked at what the neighborhood needed, raised some money from food-oriented philanthropies, and...
View ArticleWhat Should Well-Off NYC Public School Parents Do With $420 Food Stamp...
To support New Yorkers through the COVID-19 and financial crises, about a half-billion dollars in food stamps, at $420 apiece, are being issued to every city student. Those who already receive such...
View ArticleOut-of-Work Street Vendors Found Income By Feeding Food Insecure New Yorkers
With the pandemic idling many immigrants who normally make a living selling street food—and with food insecurity intensifying throughout the city—one program, ending this week, tackled both problems at...
View ArticleWhat's A Nobel Peace Prize Good For Anyway?
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a UN agency dedicated to ending world hunger. But is the award worth the hype?On Today's Show:Anne Applebaum, Atlantic staff writer, covering national politics and...
View ArticleCommunity Fridge Arrives in Mott Haven
There's a new refrigerator at the corner of 141st Street and St. Ann's Avenue known as the Mott Haven Community Fridge.Teachers at a charter school called The American Dream School have joined forces...
View ArticleCommunity Well-Being: Feeding Queens
Pedro Rodriguez, director of La Jornada NY service organization in Queens, talks about his work fighting poverty and hunger in Queens.
View ArticleHunger Continues For Many NY Families Even As Economy Recovers
As vaccination rates rise and the city approaches a full reopening, economic calamity may no longer be top of mind for many New Yorkers. But those working in food banks and pantries say demand is still...
View Article178- Hidden Kitchens - With Host Frances McDormand
Hidden Kitchens, the duPont-Columbia and James Beard Award winning radio series on NPR’s Morning Edition, explores the world of unexpected, below the radar cooking, legendary meals and eating...
View ArticleFood banks, pantries in high demand as inflation surges ahead of pandemic's...
Miguel Rodriguez stood in a long line outside a food pantry in Long Island City, waiting for his turn to pick up free groceries after his construction company canceled a day of work.It was the first...
View ArticleMayor Adams wants to fix food access. Here are the neighborhoods lacking...
Only three months into his tenure, Mayor Eric Adams has put food policy front and center in his agenda. In February, he hosted a cooking demonstration while announcing a citywide chain of plant-based...
View ArticleHaiti is Facing a Hunger Catastrophe
According to the United Nations, in Haiti, a country of over 11 million people, a rising food crisis is threatening nearly half the population with acute food insecurity and severe hunger. Political...
View ArticleNY/NJ Masking Rules; Afghanistan Update; Post-Pandemic Food Insecurity;...
On today's show:Now that the federal mask mandate has ended, Nsikan Akpan, WNYC's health and science editor, and Gwynne Hogan, reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, join to discuss how the rules have, or...
View ArticleThe State of Food Insecurity in NYC
New data from City Harvest shows that visits to food pantries and soup kitchens in the first half of 2022 were up about 69 percent compared to 2019. Jilly Stephens, CEO of City Harvest, joins us to...
View ArticleThe Issue of Hunger on College Campuses
Numerous reports over the years show that food insecurity among college students is as widespread as ever. According to the latest data from The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, in the...
View ArticleFormer Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe
Laurent Lamothe, businessman, economist and former Prime Minister of Haiti from 2012-2014, joins the show to discuss the fuel blockade of the Haitian capital by armed gangs and the series of crises in...
View ArticleFood Insecurity Among Veterans
Dennis Garvey, vice president of logistics at The Food Bank for New York City, discusses his experience in active service, and shares what the Food Bank is doing to help vets in the area who are...
View ArticleNJ's new food security advocate: We need to think bigger than meal programs
New Jersey governor Phil Murphy says he wants to end food insecurity in the state … where the Food Research and Action Center reports one in 12 households don’t have reliable access to affordable,...
View ArticleThe History of SNAP Benefits
This month, the size of millions of Americans' SNAP benefits will be shrinking as the federal government winds down its pandemic-era food assistance. Janet Poppendieck, professor emerita of sociology...
View ArticleWagner Group revolt in Russia
On Saturday, the Wagner Group took control of a major Russian city, in one of the biggest crises of President Vladimir Putin's political career. Putin's long-time henchman, Yevgeny Prigozhin,...
View ArticleHow Citymeals on Wheels and other senior services are prepping for NYC's next...
On a recent Friday morning, workers at Citymeals on Wheels’ massive food distribution warehouse in the Bronx were packing cardboard boxes with shelf-stable items like canned vegetables, pouches of tuna...
View ArticleResponding to Fear on Subways; Chef José Andrés, Offshore Wind Off the Coast...
On today's show: Harry Siegel, editor at The City, "FAQ NYC" podcast co-host, and Daily News columnist, and Dean Meminger, reporter and anchor for Spectrum News NY1, covering criminal justice, talk...
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