The People's Pantry Relief Center

The People's Pantry is the largest and most comprehensive relief center in New Jersey. We provide food and recovery services. Mission To provide one central hub for all of the services needed by our food insecure and storm damaged Ocean County communities. Whether you are looking for food, crews to work on your home, or need social services we're here for you. If for whatever reason we cannot help you, we will point you in a better direction.

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To find out more about the fight against hunger in the United States, watch Invisible US on December 3rd and 4th at 4 PM EST. 

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Why aren’t food stamps an issue in midterm elections?

Photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

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Paul Ryan and the right want to cut welfare programs. The only problem: they actually work.

Photo: MARK MAKELA/REUTERS

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The countless number of Americans that are food insecure in our country greatly rely on programs such as SNAP and WIC to get them through the day, week, month, or year. Without these programs they would be left with no help and support, and therefore no food on their tables. As amazing as...

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"If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one."

Mother Teresa (via quotes-are-awesome)

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"A few weeks before my trip to the United States someone came to our house by night and said, "There is a Hindu family with eight children, and they have gone several days without eating."

I took a bit of rice and went immediately to their assistance. The mother took the rice from my hands, distributed it into two equal servings, and went out immediately.

When she came back I asked, “Where have you been? What have you been doing?”

"They are hungry too," she answered.

Right next to them lived a Muslim family with the same number of children. The Hindu mother knew they had been out of food for several days. She did what Jesus does: she broke the bread. She broke her love and shared it with her neighbors. […]

What impressed me most in that instance was that the woman knew. Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, our family?”

—Mother Teresa, Heart of Joy

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How The $8 Billion Food Stamp Cut Will Affect Latino Families

The $8 billion cut will impact more than 850,000 low-income families in the next decade. These families will see their food assistance reduced by an average of $90 per month. That’s on top of a $5 billion cut that hit the program in November.

The National Council of La Raza says the $8 billion cut to the food stamps program will “exacerbate hunger” for many Latino families. It estimates that 17 percent of the more than 47 million Americans who benefit from food stamps are Latinos.

“It is an especially important lifeline for Latinos, since Latino children make up about two-fifths of all children living with hunger in this nation,” NCLR said Tuesday of the SNAP program.

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Another reason to love The Dude.

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Half of Food Stamp Recipients Are Children

Last night, House Republicans passed a bill that cuts $40 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps, one of the few safety nets available to the 47 million Americans living below the poverty line.

Nevertheless, a majority of our elected representatives seem to view food as a luxury that the poor are unworthy of, which is stunning considering that nearly half of food stamp recipients are children and another 26 percent are adults living with children.

On top of that, over a quarter of SNAP recipients live in households with seniors or people with disabilities.

It’s unbelievable that in the so-called richest nation on earth, where over 16 million children are living in food insecure households, one of the first things on the GOP chopping block is food aid.

The “Nutrition Reform and Work Opportunity Act”, if passed by the Senate, would deny food assistance to 3.8 million low-income Americans in 2014, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has #margaretmead #inspirational #volunteering #helpothers

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Poverty Is Literally Making People Sick Because They Can’t Afford Food

Income inequality is making us sick.

Well, it’s not making all of us sick. Only the poorest of us. That’s what a new paper in Health Affairs by Hilary Seligman, Ann Bolger, David Guzman, Andrea López, and Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo found they looked at when people go to the hospital for hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).

The basic idea is that people struggling to make it paycheck-to-paycheck (or benefits-to-benefits) might run out of money at the end of the month—and have to cut back on food. If they have diabetes, this hunger could turn into an even more severe health problem: low blood sugar. So we should expect a surge of hypoglycemia cases at the end of each month for low-income people, but not for anybody else.

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POVERTY IS HUNGER

The reality in our country. You know, our senate has been doing a lot of things that are insignificant. They are passing such laws and bills but t’was not implemented well, how come they can do this? its because they cannot feel what we feel. Still, a lot of people are suffering from poverty and poverty leads to hunger. Such a disgrace, those employees who do not mind nothing else but to rot and decay the money of the people. Life is really sometimes unfair, yet they say that we are all equal. tsk. 

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Lets stop hunger everywhere 

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This map shows food insecurity in the United States from 2008 to 2010.

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The war against hunger is truly mankind’s war of liberation.

John F. Kennedy (via justinacuff)

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For SNAP recipients, coming policy changes could take them from bad to worse

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When more than 2 million SNAP recipients in Illinois have their Link card reloaded on Nov. 1, they may notice a difference. In particular, a difference in the amount of money on their card, which will be less. That’€™s because for the past four years, people depending on food assistance have been getting a temporary… Read more »

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How Rising Food Costs Affect Black Families: People of color suffer disproportionately from food insecurity. Here’s how we can tackle it Read Here—>http://ow.ly/jlJjL