Texans receiving federal food assistance caught in crosshairs of congressional funding fight
More than 225,000 Texans could get turned away from the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children next year unless Congress allocates more money for the program, advocates and the White House warns. But partisan divisions are obscuring the path forward on government funding.
Fort Bend County Judge KP George, organization address homelessness in county
Fort Bend County Judge KP George, along with Fort Bend area nonprofit organizations, will hold a news conference to announce the Community and Economic Development Agreement between the county and the nonprofit Attack Poverty.
500K+ Houstonians live in food deserts with little to no access to healthy food and the problem has worsened due to COVID-19
Food deserts are areas where stores with healthy food options dont even exist. Food deserts in the Houston-area according to a map from the United States Department of Agriculture. The two often go hand in hand because it is food insecurity that will generally drive a food desert, said Brian Greene, President of the Houston Food Bank. We immediately saw both hunger and poor nutrition issues go up very quickly, said Brian Greene, president of the Houston Food Bank. Their mission is to combat food deserts and food insecurity.