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MAZON Responds to New USDA Data, Urges Policymakers to ‘Reverse the Course of Hunger’
September 5, 2024 — Today's report acutely spotlights a troubling trend of deepening food insecurity in this country. We’re going in the wrong direction. We have dramatic and recent evidence that safety net programs like SNAP, WIC, and the Child Tax Credit are critical and effective tools to fight hunger and poverty.
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MAZON Expresses Deep Concern about Food Shortages and Delivery Delays Impacting Indian Country
August 30, 2024 — “We are deeply concerned about the critical food shortages and delivery disruptions impacting Indigenous communities,” said Mia Hubbard, Executive Vice President of MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger.
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MAZON Leads Nearly 50 National Organizations Urging Congress to Address Military Hunger in the Final Farm Bill
August 13, 2024 — MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger sent a letter signed by 49 national organizations urging Members of Congress to ensure that the next Farm Bill removes barriers to SNAP for currently serving military families.
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MAZON Announces New Grants to Build Capacity for Long-Term Solutions to Hunger
July 24, 2024 — MAZON expands network of advocacy partners working to combat food insecurity across the U.S. and Israel.


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MAZON Urges Congress to Prioritize Military Families’ Basic Needs in Final NDAA
June 14, 2024 — Earlier today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed their version of the Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which included important provisions designed to address food insecurity and also included several “poison pill” provisions to advance the Republican majority’s conservative agenda. MAZON expressed serious concern about this approach and urged members of the House and Senate to prioritize solutions to food insecurity as fundamental needs, in the final bill later this year.

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MAZON Slams Senate Republicans’ Farm Bill Proposal as ‘One More Impediment’ to a Truly Bipartisan Bill
June 13, 2024 — With 44 million Americans facing food insecurity, MAZON and our partners have been clear that the next Farm Bill must protect and strengthen safety net programs like SNAP. Rather than providing real solutions, Republicans in Congress continue to use terms like ‘cost neutrality’ and ‘fiscal responsibility’ as a guise, when we know their proposal would result in staggering cuts to SNAP and other safety net programs.
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