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ComidaParaTodos – Food4All On KIQI 1010 AM

March 10, 2021
Hecho en California Segment on KIQI 1010 AM Betzabel Estudillo, Senior Advocate, Discusses SB 464 – Food4All. #46 – Marzo 10 de 10am a 11am  – find this clip under “Nuestro Podcast” Interview timestamp: 00:33 min – 0:41 min
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ComidaParaTodos – Food4All on Radio Bilingue

Radio Bilingue • March 2, 2021
Para que todos los californianos, no importa su estado migratorio, tengan acceso al programa de asistencia alimentaria de California.
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Paperwork Problems Keep Hungry Californians from Getting Food Stamps

Imprint • February 19, 2021
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Proposed law would give undocumented Californians access to state food assistance

Sacramento Bee • February 17, 2021
Press Release

Senator Hurtado Introduces Bill (#ComidaParaTodos) to Ensure Food Assistance for All Eligible Residents, Regardless of Immigration Status

February 17, 2021
SACRAMENTO, CA – With the COVID-19 health and economic crisis demonstrating a critical hole in California’s food delivery system, Senator Melissa Hurtado (D-Sanger) introduced legislation today to provide state-funded food benefits to everyone who is eligible in California – regardless […]
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Will COVID-19 spur California to ease food stamp applications?

CalMatters • January 7, 2021
Press Release

P-EBT extended benefits press release

December 10, 2020
Press Release Pandemic-EBT 1.0 Extended Benefits November 24, 2020 Bilen Mesfin Packwood, , 510-681-5978 (Oakland, CA) – Just in time for the holidays, the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) is mailing new Pandemic-EBT (P-EBT) benefit cards for the months of August and September to eligible families. The [...]
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Pandemic response shows hunger is a problem that can be solved

San Francisco Examiner • November 24, 2020
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State Of Food Insecurity In California

CapRadio • November 17, 2020
The number of households that don’t have enough food to eat is growing. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture suggesting that more than 10 percent of American households experienced food insecurity in 2019.
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Advocates looking at longer term solutions as food insecurity grows during pandemic

San Diego Union-Tribune • October 26, 2020
The number of households that don’t have enough food to eat is growing. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture suggesting that more than 10 percent of American households experienced food insecurity in 2019.
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Hunger rises in Bay Area as pandemic lingers

San Francisco Chronicle • September 15, 2020
Navy veteran Andy Cuevas has always prided himself on being self-sufficient. But when the pandemic hit and the Belmont resident was laid off from work as a veterans’ coordinator at Cañada College.
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Del Paso Neighbors Keep Food Fresh for Families in Hard Times

Capital Public Radio • September 3, 2020
Stretching grocery money and rationing meals was already the norm for many families in Del Paso Heights—a tight-knit neighborhood northeast of downtown.
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USDA extends free school meal program after backlash

KTVU • September 1, 2020
In a significant reversal, the USDA announced it will extend its free grab-and-go school meal program, after backlash over its plan to let the program expire at the end of September, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Families worried now that coronavirus-inspired federal food assistance is over with school back in session

KTVU • August 27, 2020
The window to apply for a federal nutrition program that provides grocery funds for children who qualify for free-and-reduced lunch has closed because it was always intended as a one-time payment when schools were closed for the summer.
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Food relief is critical to economic recovery

SF Chronicle • August 12, 2020
As veterans of the Great Recession, we feel a strong sense of deja vu in the current economic crisis. While we didn’t have to face the challenges of social distancing or rising death tolls in rebuilding the economy during the Great Recession, many other struggles are familiar, including [...]
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Poverty, Hunger & Homelessness Expected To Rise If Unemployment & SNAP Benefits Aren’t Expanded

KALW • August 4, 2020
On this edition of Your Call, we're discussing how the loss of additional unemployment benefits is impacting people who are struggling. Two months ago, House Democrats passed a bill to extend the extra $600 a week in federal benefits. Republicans want to reduce benefits to $200 a week.
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Congress is working on another stimulus package; it should help all immigrant Californians

CalMatters • July 31, 2020
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Opinion: One Thing We All Agree On

California Health Report • July 30, 2020
If there is one issue most Americans would agree on right now, it’s that we should protect our youngest children from hunger during the Covid-19 crisis. And yet the pandemic-related closure of child care facilities in California and across the country means hundreds of thousands of infants and [...]
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‘It’s like a vicious cycle’: How the pandemic leaves the poor not only exposed, but hungry

SacBee • July 29, 2020
Rarely does a mother try to stop her child from drinking a glass of milk. But with schools closed and unemployment spiking during the pandemic, Lissete Frausto, a mother of two in Oakland, finds she has little choice.
Press Release

Food Benefits Available to Children Who Qualify for Free or Reduced-Price School Meals; But Window to Apply Closes on July 15

July 15, 2020
CFPA and our partners released the following statements. P-EBT Press Release
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Our elected leaders should do more to help feed hungry children during the summer of COVID-19

June 23, 2020
6.22.20 CalMatters, link
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How a pandemic exposed racial inequality, food insecurity in California’s Central Valley

June 19, 2020
6.19.20 Fresno Bee, link
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Proposed Law Would Streamline Food Assistance Application Process For Seniors

June 17, 2020
6.17.20 KPBS, link
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Online grocery ordering still unavailable for many vulnerable to COVID-19

June 16, 2020
6.16.20 KTVU 2, link
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OPINION: In the age of COVID-19, California must remove barriers to food assistance with SB 882

June 15, 2020
6.15.20 Op-Ed, Hub LA, link

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