food insecurity

With the holidays around the corner, local food pantries are seeing a big uptick in need for services while also keeping an eye on high costs. That includes pantries at college campuses in the San Joaquin Valley.

Just in time for Thanksgiving, the organization Save the Children distributed healthy meals and school supplies to children in the Valley.

Undocumented immigrants don’t currently qualify for the state’s food assistance programs. But on Monday, Governor Gavin Newsom proposed spending about 35 million dollars to expand these benefits to undocumented people age 55 and older.

On this week’s Valley Edition: We continue our series Escape From Mammoth Pool, about the dramatic rescues of hundreds of campers during the first days of…

Why is food insecurity so common in Kern County, and what can people do to solve it? Those two questions are at the core of a new documentary called…

The clock is ticking for CARES Act grants, which are set to run out at the end of the month. In Fresno, these funds helped to finance the COVID-19 Equity…

While reports show that the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affects communities of color, gaps in data have made it difficult to quantify the impact…

Outside the Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in downtown Fresno, volunteers unload boxes of ribbed sinqua from a farmer’s pickup truck. “All right…

When COVID-19 struck, Every Neighborhood Partnership teamed up with local agencies in the Valley to expand food distribution, provide access to diapers…

COVID-19, and the stay-at-home directives enacted to minimize its spread, have led to a shocking decline in employment. For many, the loss of wages means…