(RNS) — The need for faith-based leadership on hunger is a sign American policy is not working.

“Finish your food. There are starving kids in Africa,” is a phrase generations of Americans have heard and said to produce gratitude and pity. But this phrase suggests hunger is a problem that only ...

Across America, more than 13 million children are food insecure, including 17,080 here in Eastern Iowa. This means many of our most vulnerable citizens do not have regular access to the healthy, ...

According to recent U.S. government data and financial surveys, approximately 60% of Americans live either below the federal poverty line or paycheck to paycheck, leaving little margin for unexpected ...

Today, in the richest country in the world, where we’ve sent people to the moon and back, a national travesty lies with 1 in 5 children. Child poverty. That’s 1 in 5 children in this country who go to ...

Central Ohioans won't accept their neighbors going hungry. That was shown to Matt Habash, president and CEO of the Mid-Ohio Food Collective, when 4,400 individuals along with the city, county and ...

Hunger, sadly, is as American as apple pie: a crisis we seem to revisit each budget cycle but never resolve. With the record-breaking federal government shutdown finally over and access to the ...

Feeling of nothing in your stomach really is different than feeling hungry. Definitely headaches. People call it a hunger headache. Probably two days out of the week, I get a migraine. My brain starts ...

Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, is answering questions this week on a blog operated by The New York Times. The City Room blog is soliciting readers to ...