Tuesday, June 13th, 2023
The U.S. uses a food stamp program to tackle food insecurity. Should Canada?
In 2022, more than 41 million people in the U.S. purchased food with SNAP benefits West Virginian Meghan Hullinger is a single mother of four who, despite working a full-time job, says she has only about $45 left over each month after paying most of her basic living expenses. So for the past six years, Hullinger has been using a government issued debit card at her nearby grocery to purchase food for her family. She is one of the millions of Americans who use that card as part of the U.S. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — a federal food security program run byRead more
Rescued child says mom survived 4 days after plane crash in Colombian jungle before dying
4 children spent 40 days in jungle before rescue; expected to remain in hospital The four Indigenous children who survived 40 days in the Amazon jungle after their plane crashed have shared limited but harrowing details of their ordeal with their family, including that their mother survived the crash for days before she died. The children, aged 13, 9 and 4 years and 11 months, are expected to remain for at least two weeks in a hospital receiving treatment after their rescue on Friday, but some are already speaking andRead more