Biden's strategy to end hunger in US includes more benefits

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By COLLEEN LONG

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is laying out its plan to meet an ambitious goal of ending hunger in the U.S. by 2030, including expanding monthly benefits that help low-income Americans buy food.

The administration, in a plan released Tuesday, is also seeking to increase healthy eating and physical activity so that fewer people are afflicted with diabetes, obesity, hypertension and other diet-related diseases. It said it would work to expand Medicaid and Medicare access to obesity counseling and nutrition.

“The consequences of food insecurity and diet-related diseases are significant, far reaching, and disproportionately impact historically underserved communities,” Biden wrote in a memo outlining the White House strategy. “Yet, food insecurity and diet-related diseases are largely preventable, if we prioritize the health of the nation.”

Biden is hosting a conference this week on hunger, nutrition and health, the first by the White House since 1969. That conference, under President Richard Nixon, was a pivotal moment that influenced the U.S. food policy agenda for 50 years. It led to a greatly expanded food stamps program and gave rise to the Women, Infants and Children program, which serves half the babies born in the U.S. by providing women with parenting advice, breastfeeding support and food assistance.



President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting of the White House Competition Council in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)


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[Novara]

1. Jose Andres is involved.

I saw a PBS documentary/interview with Jose Andres and he talked a lot about how this country desperately needs a nutrition council. The president appointed him as co-chair: Biden appoints Spanish chef José Andrés as advisor to Sport and Nutrition

He had a lot of interesting things to say. I'm glad Biden appointed him.

[SheltieLover]

2. Awesome!!!

Ty for sharing this!

[Novara]

7. Glad to! I respect Jose Andres so much.

[SheltieLover]

3. Excellent! 👏👏👏👏

[Lonestarblue]

4. End poverty in the US and hunger is ended.

Increase minimum wages, require all corporations over a certain size to pay benefits regardless of hours worked, pass Medicare for All, break up the near-monopolies in the food industry, stop subsidizing bad farming through chemicals, stop building strip malls that get abandoned years laters with nothing but pavement where there could be community vegetable gardens, etc.

Create specific programs for the rural poor and the inner city poor. Revamp the welfare system that allows Republicans in states like Mississippi to siphon money to rich friends.

Getting rid of Republicans would probably help a lot with addressing hunger.

[nature-lover]

9. This is the whole package! Excellent post.

[Botany]

5. Best President of my lifetime.

“Yet, food insecurity and diet-related diseases are largely preventable, if we prioritize the health of the nation.”

[CountAllVotes]

6. Joe Biden needs to help out a lot of senior citizens

Too many of us are living in poverty.

To me, this is unacceptable as many of us worked for many years only to end up living on a pittance. That's what happened to me.

WE were already living in poverty, now it is worse as my husband died and I cannot collect a widow's pension as the SSDI I receive is more than he got.

He didn't get much because he worked minimum wage jobs, never had a pension and did not plan ahead at all.

So, here I am left behind with $1,000.00 a month to live on.

Does Pres. Biden care about "us"?

[Elessar Zappa]

8. I think

Biden’s mentioned that SS benefits should be increased. The example I saw said that under his plan, someone making $1,000 would get a $200 raise. Can’t find a link, though, just going off memory.