Hunger

Cutting food assistance increases hunger

November 7, 2013 By Special to People’s World

Last week the Illinois Watchdog published an article that trivialized the effects of the Nov. 1 SNAP benefit cuts, stating they were "neither a surprise nor a problem."

In New York, Lhota leans right

October 22, 2013 By Gabe Falsetta And Jarvis Tyner

Lhota has a big problem: he wants to continue Bloomberg's pro Wall Street policies, but to get votes he must paint himself as a liberal. It appears that tactic is not going to fly.

Ohio town rallies around hungry, disabled woman charged with penny theft

October 18, 2013 By Berndt Kipping And Teresa Albano

BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio - Residents here rallied around Deirdre Romine, who was charged with theft after she was found with $2.87 in wet pennies in her pocket, scavenged to buy some food.

ALEC tries new gerrymandering efforts in Ohio counties

October 15, 2013 By Wally Kaufman

The ALEC forces are now subjecting Ohio counties with a strong organized labor base, to an onslaught of proposed changes in county government which, if passed, will abolish countywide election of county leaders.

Agrarian strike in Colombia triggers repression, wider struggle

September 3, 2013 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

Angry small farmers are rejecting free trade agreements Colombia signed with the United States, Canada, and the European Union. Rrural people in Colombia are suffering.Eight million Colombians are hungry,