Adi Talwar
Food is more than breakfast, lunch and dinner—especially in New York City. From food stamps to farmers’ markets, salt warnings to sous chefs, food is a social-justice issue, a public-health concern and an industry with growing impact. This series will explore food issues in the five boroughs—and provide ways for readers to get a seat at the table. Supported by the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund.
Nepali Bhanccha Ghar, a Nepali restaurant in Jackson Heights, won the annual food event, which aims to showcase the neighborhood’s South Asian communities and cultures, Everest Times reports.
The new Bronx distribution facility for regional food will boost supply and potentially lower price, backers say.
Overall, the budget for the Department for The Aging will grow 13 percent in 2020 from the previous year, reaching $411 million.
Students at 51 percent of schools citywide head to the lunchroom at 11:00 a.m. or earlier. Where does your child’s school rank? And why is it so hard to feed kids at a normal time?
Waivers that exempt able-bodied adults in areas of higher unemployment from food-stamp work rules encourage dependency, conservatives say. But local experts contend the cost of withdrawing those waivers will exceed any benefit.
‘At less than one-half of 1 percent of the city’s overall budget, the Department for the Aging has long struggled to receive the financial support it requires to meet its mission of ensuring the ‘the dignity and quality of life of diverse older adults.”
‘For the farmworkers of New York State, the Farmworkers Fair Labors Practices Act (FFLPA) is a promising remediation to exploitative labor practices, poor living conditions and a pernicious exemption from legal protections or mechanisms to fight against it.’
‘If these higher benefits were eaten up immediately, it’s not like low-income people are spending it on caviar or something. They are struggling just to survive.’
With a Democratic-controlled State Senate and Assembly, many advocates are hopeful that this will be the year the Farmworker Fair Labor Practices Act finally passes.
The teacher reminded some restless students to focus during the last 15 minutes before lunch. Standard directions for students feeling antsy before the mid-day meal. Except it was 9:25 a.m.
TOOLS FOR YOUR TABLE
Photos: NaJina McEnany, Çalak, Jim, Stefan Kühn, Lance Cpl. Sean Cummins, Heikenwaelder Hugo
