Changes in FoodShare and Medicaid requirements have caused benefits to be cut off for many and created difficulties for beneficiaries to get their applications reviewed or renewed.
Tag: food insecurity
Posted inHealth & Welfare
As one in eight kids go hungry and schools struggle to feed kids, Wisconsin has a chance to turn the tables
The end of free lunch leaves families struggling to feed their kids and nutrition departments under-funded as they navigate families who can’t pay.
Posted inBeyond Hunger
Local grow-your-own movement blossoms in America’s Dairyland
Programs that provide locally grown, healthy foods are making them more affordable to people who are food insecure in Wisconsin.
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Technology, logistics make food-scrap composting in Wisconsin a challenge
UW and the city of Madison have struggled to turn tons of cast-off food into soil. Three Madison companies fill some of the gap.
Posted inBeyond Hunger, Health & Welfare
Recovery programs seek to solve food waste – and insecurity – in Wisconsin
Groups across the state have searched for alternatives to get food that would be wasted to people in need.
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Wisconsin districts seek solutions as school lunch quality comes under fire
‘I just couldn’t bring myself to eat it’: National supply chain and labor shortages have led to worse meals — and a new push to go local
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Wisconsin: Land of plenty includes plenty of ‘food deserts’
Large parts of Milwaukee and rural Wisconsin lack easy access to groceries. The state, cities and communities are working to change that.
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As universal free school meals end, are Wisconsin families ready for it?
Elected officials and advocates debate the fate of free school meals that provided relief to families during the pandemic.
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Federal food aid in Wisconsin has evolved, but users still face decades-old barriers
The former head of Wisconsin’s FoodShare program says qualifying for and maintaining food assistance is overly cumbersome for participants
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Pandemic support fading for 1 in 12 Wisconsinites who were food insecure
Some pandemic-related changes could transform FoodShare and other solutions to hunger — if the policies survive expiration dates and the state’s political divide