Early responses to COVID-19 offered struggling Americans temporary emergency support in the form of stimulus payments as Congress passed vital — yet short term — improvements to federal nutrition programs. When President Joe Biden took office in 2021, he centered the government’s responsibility to take care of those in need with key policies that were part of his “American Rescue Plan.” While many of these programs brought a measure of stability to American households throughout the pandemic, their temporary nature meant critical programs were due to sunset with the end of the public health emergency, even as families continued to struggle.
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The Hunger Museum
We Can Solve Hunger —
The Proof is in Our History
The Proof is in Our History
- 1.Welcome
- 2.Museum Lobby
- 3.The Age of Mass Migration - Landing
- 4.The Age of Mass Migration - Main
- 5.Immigration from Europe – for tours
- 6.Jane Addams and Hull House
- 7.On the Breadline
- 8.Beginnings
- 9.Farm Family Portraits
- 10.An Unequal Recovery
- 11.How did the Food Stamp Program work?
- 12.Hunger, Justice, and Civil Rights - Landing
- 13.Hunger, Justice, and Civil Rights - Main
- 14.Walk for Decent Welfare (Columbus, OH)
- 15.Televising the War on Hunger - Landing
- 16.Televising the War on Hunger - Main
- 17.CBS’s “Hunger in America”
- 18.President Lyndon B. Johnson
- 19.Senator George McGovern and Senator Robert Dole
- 20.Dr. Jean Mayer and the White House Conference
- 21.1975-1996: The Unmaking of the Great Society
- 22.Government Cheese
- 23.The Welfare Queen
- 24.The Return of the Welfare Queen
- 25.Crises of New Proportions - Landing
- 26.Crises of New Proportions - Main
- 27.COVID-19
- 28.COVID-19 – 2nd photo for tours
- 29.Wishing Tree
- 30.End tour
MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger