Relief Efforts in Japan Underway as Survivors Battle Hunger, Homelessness
It’s been a week since the earthquake and tsunami devastated Northern Japan. So far, the disaster has claimed nearly 5,700 lives and 9,500 people are still missing. As relief organizations try to clear...
View ArticleTwenty Years Later, Somalia's Grave State Continues
John Hockenberry went to Somalia in 1992. Hunger, armed Islamists, and drought were taking a heavy toll on the country — just like they are now. In his latest video, Hockenberry talks about the...
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Sculptures of Canned Goods to Be Dismantled, Donated to Charity
About 100,000 canned goods — stacked in the shape of shoes, candles and even the Brooklyn Bridge — are on display at the World Financial Center in Lower Manhattan for one last weekend as part of a...
View ArticleFood Stamps Panel
As Thanksgiving week starts, the Brian Lehrer Show convenes a panel to talk about hunger and food stamps in NYC with Robert Doar, administrator and commissioner of the New York City Human Resources...
View ArticleReport: Eligible Students Missing Free Breakfasts
New York City ranks last in a list of 26 urban school districts when it comes to getting qualified children to participate in the free school breakfast program, according to the Food Research and...
View ArticleSlate: The Culture Gabfest, Live in Los Angeles Q&A
In a special live show Steve, Julia and Dana take listeners' questions after their show at Zocalo Public Square in LA.
View ArticleSlate: The Culture Gabfest, Live in Los Angeles Edition
In this week's special live Culture Gabfest, our critics debate the controversy surrounding This American Life’s retraction of Mike Daisey’s popular monologue, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs....
View ArticleA Year in an African Farm Community
Roger Thurow tells the story of a group of smallholder farmers in western Kenya who took an enormous risk to try to change their lives against the backdrop of our looming global challenge to feed the...
View ArticleHunger in New York City
Joel Berg, the executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, explains how social programs managed to prevent widespread starvation during the great recession.The recession has...
View ArticleTom Colicchio, Lori Silverbush, and Kristi Jacobson on Hunger in America
Lori Silverbush and Kristi Jacobson, directors of the documentary “A Place at the Table,” and chef Tom Colicchio, the film’s executive producer, talk about the crisis of hunger in America today....
View ArticleAnnual Feast Is A Reminder of America's Hungry
Last Thanksgiving about 46 million turkeys ended up on dinner tables across the country. That’s 736 million pounds of turkey meat.But not every American has the option to choose what size bird they'll...
View ArticleFood Pantries Strained By Federal Cuts
With winter officially here, New York’s food pantries and soup kitchens are feeling the strain of feeding the hungry, especially after two key benefit cuts form the federal government. The FOCUS food...
View ArticleFood Insecurity and Hunger in America
For this week’s installment of our series Strapped: A Look at Poverty in America, Joel Berg, Executive Director of New York City Coalition Against Hunger talks about food insecurity, hunger, and...
View ArticleWhy Are So Many Americans Going Hungry?
One-sixth of people in the United States are food insecure. Tracie McMillan looks at the face of hunger in this country and why millions of working Americans are struggling to feed their families....
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleWhy 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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