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On Monday, the Coalition's Executive Director, Joel Berg, testified before the New York City Council General Welfare Committee's Hearing on Hunger about soaring hunger and poverty rates, SNAP/Food Stamps, finger imaging, and other steps the City should take to better fight hunger.

View the full testimony by clicking here (PDF).

On Tuesday evening, the Coalition Against Hunger held their annual spring benefit - New York City...A Future Hunger-Free Town - at Bayard's in downtown Manhattan. It was a great success, bringing together 200 NYCCAH supporters for a night of jazz, cocktails, hors d'œuvres, and mingling.

Response to Michelle Malkin by Joel Berg

Self-styled conservative pundit Michelle Malkin just published a column on National Review Online that places politics over facts to slam an innovative public/private, faith-based/secular partnership that is effectively fighting domestic hunger across the United States.

Continuing a trend first discovered a year ago, people in seven of the 13 congressional districts in New York City still faced severe food hardships in 2009-2010. More than 20 percent of residents in nine of those districts lacked money for food, according to just-released data collected by the Gallup Organization on behalf of the Washington, DC-based Food Research and Action Center (FRAC).

Great news: the Get Real NY Craft Beer & Food Festival has announced that it will donate one dollar from each ticket bought to the Coalition's anti-hunger programs. Click here to buy your ticket today!

The Case for State Food Action Plans: Laboratories of Food Democracy
Joel Berg delivers a comprehensive strategy for addressing hunger at the state level.

• Download the full report here.
• Watch the video presentation of the paper here.
  
  

Mayor Nutter, Obama Administration Officials Swear-In AmeriCorps VISTA Team to Work in 18 States

Watch ABC Channel 7's Media Coverage here.