Tennessee Conservative
When The Coronavirus Found Its Way To Tennessee & Hamilton County Schools Made The Choice To Shut Down On-campus Learning, One Of The First Concerns For Many People Was ‘How Are The Children Going To Eat?’
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Tennessee Residents Who Participated In The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Numbered 865,381 In September 2020, A 1.3% Decrease Over The Number Taking Part In September 2019.
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The Tennessee Department Of Human Services (TDHS) Announced The Next Round Of The Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) Program Which Supports Children Who Receive Free Or Reduced School Meals.
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Tennessee Residents Who Received Assistance From The Commodity Supplemental Food Program Numbered 8,916 In 2020, A 7.7% Decrease Compared With The Number Of Participants In 2019.
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After A Year Of Economic Uncertainty Because Of The COVID-19 Pandemic, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee Proposed a $41.8 Billion Budget In His Annual State Of The State Address.
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Food Insecurity is on the rise in Chattanooga and across Tennessee as many families struggle to access resources during the era of Covid shutdowns.
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If Vilsack is successfully confirmed for another stint at USDA, he will have a shot to become the longest-serving Agriculture Secretary in the nation’s history. He has a years-long service record of reckless agricultural policy and cronyism that comes at the expense of America’s small family farms and ranches. The senators who will be tasked with evaluating his nomination in the coming weeks would do well to study this record and ask tough questions. Ultimately, any honest evaluation will produce the conclusion that the USDA should not open its doors to Vilsack a second time.
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As 2020 winds down, roughly 23 percent of households in the U.S. are struggling with food insecurity, a number that has doubled since last year.
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President-elect Joe Biden’s broadband plan indicates he will push for more government-owned (taxpayer-funded) internet networks, which would be bad news for taxpayers.
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The grocery store opened to the public last week in an area that is recognized as a food desert. A food desert is as an urban census tract where 20 percent of the residents live below the poverty line and 33 percent live over a mile away from a grocery store.
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