Rising costs for fuel, food and labor are forcing school cafeterias nationwide to raise prices, cut jobs and, in some cases, dip into “rainy day” funds to put food on trays, according to congressional testimony to be delivered today.

The U.S. Agriculture Department chipped in an extra dime a meal last week to help schools pay for lunches.

Turkey To Go Restaurant Celebrates 50 Years at MN State Fair
A Portion of Every Sale Will Go To Hunger Solutions Minnesota

(Buffalo, MN) … The Minnesota Turkey Growers Association’s (MTGA) restaurant, Turkey To Go, is celebrating its 50th year at the Minnesota State Fair this year.

The executive director of Washington County’s largest food shelf has received the first-ever Voice of Hunger award for her leadership in bringing public attention to hunger in Minnesota.

Michelle Rageth, 49, has overseen the Friends in Need food shelf in St. Paul Park for 10 years. She was given the award at a recent rally in St.

Jensen-Boehne and other organizers of Place of Hope said that home foreclosures, sky-high gas prices and other signs of economic distress show the need for another community food shelf in Oakdale, Woodbury and Maplewood.

Two decades have passed since Twin Cities residents learned about the food shelf at Wabasso, in west-central Minnesota, or as the community promotes itself, “smack dab in the middle of Redwood County.” It’s time to take another close look.

Back then, in what was known as the farm financial crisis of the 1980s, the food shelf in the basement of St.

...While most states aim to reduce poverty, Minnesota wants to eliminate it.

Gregory Gray, director of Minnesota’s Legislative Commission to End Poverty in Minnesota by 2020 said he’s confident the program will maintain its political momentum because it started as a local faith-based movement that won unanimous legislative support for funding.

By ANDREW MARTIN, New York Times

Grocery bills are rising through the roof. Food banks are running short of donations. And food shortages are causing sporadic riots in poor countries through the world.

You’d never know it if you saw what was ending up in our landfills. Americans waste an astounding amount of food — an estimated 27 percent of the food available for consumption, according to one government study — and it happens at the supermarket, in restaurants and cafeterias and in your very own kitchen. It works out to about a pound of food every day for every American.

Former U.S. Senator George McGovern, the man who ran against Richard Nixon in the 1972 presidential election, spoke July 17 to a Hunger Solutions Minnesota gathering in St.