According to recently released data from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), approximately 49 million people in the United States live in food-insecure households, with nearly 16 million of them being children. In other words, 14 percent American households faced difficulty in providing food for their members at some point during the year. There is evidence that as the economic recession and job losses of 2007-2008 hit American families, the problem of household food insecurity dramatically increased by over 33 percent and has remained intractably high ever since.
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NEW YORK (December 21, 2015) -- U.S. District Court Judge Jane Boyle has ordered the former Urban League of Greater Dallas, which was disaffiliated earlier this year, to stop using the Urban League name and logos.
For two years, Tyrell Stalling sent off job applications to no avail. Sometimes, he was homeless.
“At one point I took all the resumes I did and just threw them away. Because I was like, there’s no help. This world is just unfair,” Stalling said. Stalling is one of 114 men who this year have completed a new job training effort by the Urban League.
NEW YORK (December 9, 2015) -- National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial today issued the following statement regarding hate speech and violence:
“In the last month, there have been two dozen anti-Muslim attacks in the United States, ranging from a cabdriver shot in Pittsburgh to the deliberate torching of a Somali restaurant in Grand Forks, N.D. The owner of a food market in Queens was beaten by a customer who vowed to “kill Muslims.” Threats, vandalism and discrimination are rampant.
Sybil Morial’s “Witness to Change” Traces Her Life Through Civil Rights Activism
NEW YORK (December 07, 2015) -- National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial and his wife, CBS News journalist Michelle Miller, will host a book release event and reading of “Witness To Change,” the recently-released memoir of Morial’s mother, Sybil Haydel Morial.
