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New report finds 28.3% of N.M. families have trouble buying food

By | 08.12.11 | 1:32 pm | More from The New Mexico Independent

The Food Research and Action Center released a report (pdf) Thursday on rates of food hardship over the year 2010, finding that 28.3 percent of New Mexico families with children had trouble getting food on the table in the past year.

GAO: Despite Increased Funding, U.S. Food Aid Declines

By | 09.30.09 | 4:38 pm

Despite a 53 percent in food aid funding over the last two years, the amount of food delivered to address emergencies abroad fell 5 percent over the same span, the non-partisan Government Accountability Office reported Wednesday. GAO is citing as a culprit a U.S. law requiring that almost More…