Assemblymember
Jim Beall, Jr., (D-San Jose) convened an informational
hearing – “Global Food Crisis: What Can be Done
Now to Help California’s Low-Income Families?’’
-- to examine skyrocketing food prices and their
affect on struggling low-income families. The hearing
featured the following testimonies:
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MORE:
Fact
Sheet: International Food Crisis: Food Bank Clients
in Peril
Michael
Flood, CEO of the Los Angeles Food Bank
Elizabeth
Gomez, Outreach Manager for the Alameda County Community
Food Bank
Mike
Herald, Western Center on Law & Poverty
Karen
M. Jetter, Research Economist, University of California
Agricultural Issues Center
Frank
Mecca, Executive Director, CA Welfare Directors'
Association
H.
Eric Schockman, PhD, President, Mazon and Chair
National Anti-Hunger Organizations
John
Wagner, Director, CA Department of Social Services
MEDIA:
Shortages,
Prices Hit California Food Banks as Schools Recess
Shortages,
Prices Hit California Food Banks as Schools Recess
Food
banks see huge increase in clients
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