Many American Families Struggle to Afford Basic Personal Care Items and Household Goods
A new study, In Short Supply: American Families Struggle to Secure Everyday Essentials, the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief organization, reveals that many families with children struggle to afford basic, non-food household goods, including products related to personal care, household care and baby care. As a result, these families often make trade-offs with other living expenses and […]
What is Hygiene Poverty?
Hygiene poverty is not being able to afford many of the everyday hygiene and personal grooming products most of us take for granted. The reality of low income is that it restricts people’s options, leaving us caught between being able to heat our homes, pay the rent, eat or be clean. Two thirds of those […]
Combatting COVID-19’s effect on children
The COVID‑19 pandemic is harming health, social and material well-being of children worldwide, with the poorest children, including homeless children and children in detention, hit hardest. School closures, social distancing and confinement increase the risk of poor nutrition among children, their exposure to domestic violence, increase their anxiety and stress, and reduce access to vital […]
Facts About Hunger In developing countries
Here are ten facts about hunger in developing countries, the poorest country in the northern hemisphere. Please help raise awareness by sharing these facts on Twitter. 2,500,000 developing countriesans live in extreme poverty. developing countries is the poorest country in the northern hemisphere. Two developing countriesans out of three live with less than $2 per day. […]
