The Hunger Action Network of New York State is a statewide
anti-hunger coalition that combines grassroots organizing
at the local level with state level research, education and
advocacy to address the root causes of hunger, including poverty.
Founded
in 1982, we are a not-for-profit organization comprised of
emergency food programs, concerned citizen advocates, low-income
individuals, community agencies and religious organizations. |
Hunger Action Testifies to NYC City Council to Increase Welfare Jobs and Emergency Food Funding
Protest outside Albany bank targets Wall Street to help bail out NY state
Faith Leaders Pray for Suffering Poor at Governor’s Doorstep on GOOD FRIDAY
Press Release
Welfare Good Friday Prayer Vigil at Governor's Doorstep, WNYT video
On Tax Day, Human Service and Peace Groups Announce Support for NYC Councilmember James' Resolution to Cut Military Budget to Fund City Budget and other Local Needs read >
Anti-poverty advocates join with state lawmakers at City Hall in NYC to urge more funding for jobs for welfare participants in state budget. read >
Hunger Action Calls on Sen. Gillibrand to lead fight for $4 billion increase in funding for child nutrition programs read >
Hundreds Rally at State Capitol for Jobs, Higher Welfare Grant, Access to Education. Time for Wall Street to Bail out Main Street, stop rebate of $16 billion stock transfer tax. Photos | Release
Hunger Action Submits Petition to Labor Dept, to Raise State Minimum Wage to $10 an Hour read >
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Hunger Action Joins Sidewalk Summit in NYC Urging Pres. Obama to Support Improved Medicare for All
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Hunger Action joins with Peace, Labor and Veterans Groups to urge cut in military budget to free up funds to help resolve state budget deficit read >
Hunger Action Opposes Cuts in Welfare Grant Hike, Homeless Programs and Jobs for Welfare Participants read >
Hunger Action Calls for Soda and Stock Transfer Taxes to Help Solve State’s Budget Woes read >
Two NYC Congressional Districts Have Highest Hunger Rates in Nation.
One out of six NYS households experience hunger. read >
Hunger Action Testifies on behalf of proposed soda tax.
Calls for proceeds to be targeted to anti-obesity and anti-hunger initiatives. read >
Hunger Action Calls for GOOD JOBS NOW in Response to Recession
Urges Lawmakers to Support Affordable Housing, Minimum Wage Hike, Ethics Reform, Single Payer Health Care. read >
Hunger Action Urges Congress to add $4 billlion to federal child nutrition programs
Programs such as WIC, school meals and summer meals are up for reauthorization, hopefully by March 2010. read >
Single Payer New York calls on Congress to make health care a human right on 61st Anniversary of UN Declaration read >
Hunger Action Network Renews Call on Lawmakers to Stop Rebating Speculator Tax to Wall Street
Rather than enacting deep cuts to vital programs such as emergency food, Hunger Action is proposing that the State stops rebating to Wall Street traders the $9 billion it collects annually through the stock transfer tax. read >
NBC Nightly News profile a Community Supported Agriculture farm project for low-income residents of Flatbush NY started by Hunger Action Network, NYC Coalition Against Hunger, and Just Food.
See Video clip | Read about HANNYS' CSA Projects
Hunger Action Supports Pres. Obama's Call to End Childhood Hunger by 2015
Hunger Action recently participated in a USDA hearing in NYC on how to achieve the President's goal of ending childhood hunger. Hunger cannot be eradicated without addressing the broader issues of poverty and economic insecurity; security for children is contingent on security for families. Certainly an expanded and improved Child Nutrition Programs would be an essential foundation to ending childhood hunger in America by 2015. The US needs to treat the right to healthy food as a basic human right. A nation free from childhood hunger is one in which low-income families have the resources they need to access enough nutritious food with dignity, and where children are fed without stigma wherever they are – including at home, in school, during the summer, in childcare and in afterschool settings. testimony
Photos from Annual Meeting
Hunger Action Network Membership Votes to Make Political Reform Top Priority read >
Faith Groups Urge President Obama and Congress to Make Health Care a Right for All Americans read >
State Study Finds that a single payer health care system would save $20 billion annually by 2019 The long delayed state study concludes that a single payer Medicare for All type program is the most cost-effective way to provide health care to all New Yorkers read >
Expanding the Local Food Economy in New York State read >
Hunger Action Network Releases Report on a Decade of Welfare Reform
Calls for Jobs to be more Central for Welfare to Work Effort
The report outlines how New York can restructure its state welfare programs to be more effective in helping welfare participants find employment, especially at a time when a majority of participants have multiple barriers to employment. Individuals who have left welfare for work in New York have not escaped poverty due to low wages and limited hours and benefits.
Executive Summary | Press Release
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Dr. Andy Coates is secretary of the Capital District chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program, teaches at Albany Medical College and practices internal medicine in Albany, NY. He is a member of the Public Employees Federation, AFL-CIO and co chair of Single Payer New York. Hunger Action helps coordinate SPNY. read >
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