Tagged With "Immigrants"

By Jack P. Shonkoff, Immigration Initiative at Harvard, October 2019 Background The separation of children from their parents and their prolonged detention for an indefinite period of time raise profound concerns that transcend partisan politics and demand immediate resolution. Forcibly separating children from their parents is like setting a house on fire. Preventing rapid reunification is like blocking the first responders from doing their job. And subjecting children to prolonged...

By Jackie Botts and Felicia Mello, Cal Matters, November 6, 2019 A college student in Fresno who struggles with hunger has applied for food stamps three times. Another student, who is homeless in Sacramento, has applied twice. Each time, they were denied. A 61-year-old in-home caretaker in Oakland was cut off from food stamps last year when her paperwork got lost. Out of work, she can’t afford groceries. While picking up a monthly box of free food, a 62-year-old senior in San Diego told...

I am at a small college in Kentucky. Students who are from Kentucky are not eligible. Students who live on campus August-May are not eligible because they have access to over 50% of their meals available through room & board contract. Maybe other schools have meal plans over breaks & long holidays, we do not nor do we have meals in summer, even though around 100 students stay during summer to work because they don't have a "home" to go home to. We started a small food pantry 4 years...