Manhattan: Whenever you open the fridge in your kitchen and see nothing left, do you get out your cellphone and order takeout? That’s not an choice for almost 1.5 million New Yorkers.
Meals on the desk is just not assured and COVID-19 made meals more and more insecure. With donations reducing and want rising once more because of inflation and unemployment, we must be asking ourselves how we are able to guarantee meals safety on this metropolis. Meals insecurity is described by the USDA as “restricted or unsure capability to acquire acceptable meals in socially acceptable methods or restricted or unsure availability of nutritionally ample and secure meals.” Visits to meals pantries and soup kitchens are up 14% since January 2022, when inflation began driving up meals costs, and up 69% in 2022 in comparison with pre-pandemic ranges, based on nonprofit Metropolis Harvest. The federal government is just not responding successfully to the scenario, leaving thousands and thousands in despair.
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People who find themselves already struggling financially are additionally probably the most susceptible in occasions of inflation. Bread and eggs, two basic meals, have seen worth will increase of 16.2% and 39.8%, respectively, over the previous 12 months. Households are pressured to change to lower-cost options which can be much less nutritious. Not getting access to wholesome meals might be devastating, particularly for youngsters, who require extra nutrient-rich meals.
Federal diet help packages just like the Supplemental Diet Help Program (SNAP) are unable to ensure low-income households’ advantages because of meals inflation. Increasing SNAP profit quantities and outreach must be a precedence. A rise in charitable packages like meals pantries and soup kitchens must be prioritized and consciousness must be elevated to usher in extra donations. Katherine Wang
Bronx: Nicely, effectively, effectively! It seems there have been no waves this 12 months, neither pink nor blue. Donald Trump’s cronies couldn’t make it and the Dems stored the established order. In fact, Trump decries accountability for his cronies’ failures. Then once more, he decries accountability for something that doesn’t go his approach. It’s all the time the opposite man’s fault. Hopefully, these Republicans who both gained or stored their positions will open their eyes and see Trump for the psycho he’s. Maybe Mitch McConnell will develop a pair and return at him when Trump insults his spouse or degrades him. Solely a scared, insecure coward takes what McConnell has taken from Trump and backs down. As we speak Trump loves you, tomorrow he says you’re crap. The one loyalty Trump is aware of is to himself. Anna Maria McCorry
Edinburgh: Simply to recap: Elon Musk is a genius! British Conservatives are the occasion of steady authorities and financial accountability! Trumpism is undefeatable! Vladimir Putin is omnipotent! You want expertise to get to the highest! Folks care concerning the local weather! It pays to be trustworthy! (Shall I proceed?) Amanda Baker
Manhattan: As kids, we needed to set up ourselves by doing the alternative of what our dad and mom appropriately informed us: Take an umbrella for the rain? Nope, get soaked and cry that our sneakers had been ruined. Petulant voters attempting to point out Republicans that they nonetheless don’t like Trump voted for the occasion that gave them generational crime, inflation and revolving-door justice, despite the fact that they knew Democrats had been accountable. Tragically, as these voters undergo economically and extra fall sufferer to crime on the streets and within the subways, the disingenuous cries you hear shall be their puzzlement as to why the dangerous occasions solely develop worse. John Brindisi
Ridgewood, N.J.: Traditionally the midterm elections have all the time favored the occasion out of energy. This 12 months the outcomes general ship a message of neutrality. The take a look at of our route now shifts to 2024, when voters will as soon as once more resolve which occasion’s insurance policies enchantment to a nation that’s turning into more and more various. Ed Houlihan
Delray Seaside, Fla.: The inhabitants of Nevada is barely 3.14 million folks. I can’t consider that 4 days after the election, they had been nonetheless counting the votes. The casinos in Las Vegas depend extra {dollars} than that day by day. Barry Rudd
Bayside: To Voicer Chandra Bocci: Earlier than you go praising Mayor Adams for going inexperienced, ask him why the town was working massive vaccination buses for greater than 16 hours per day, seven days per week, for months (most occasions with a police escort, additionally idling) in all 5 boroughs. A few of these buses are nonetheless working as I kind. Whereas I perceive the significance of conserving the vaccines on the correct temperature, absolutely there’s a safer approach than polluting the air close to the homes and colleges they’re parked by. The bus parked by me that ran for months was precisely one block away from P.S. 159′s schoolyard. Karen Sabatini
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Stone Ridge, N.Y.: I’m writing to ask you to cowl the well-coordinated marketing campaign by the gasoline trade and its allies to weaken, if not derail, key components of New York’s landmark local weather legislation, the Local weather Management and Group Safety Act. The majority of the disinformation issues constructing electrification and phasing out fossil-fuel combustion in buildings as a result of this poses the largest menace to the fossil gasoline trade’s income. It spends billions of {dollars} on lobbying and public disinformation campaigns. Accountable media retailers like yours can not allow them to get away with this. Please totally cowl this essential story — not doing so can be a disservice to your viewers. Daisy Foote
Brooklyn: Can anybody clarify why, on the crosstown shuttle, the place trains come into the station at 5 miles per hour, there are steel obstacles that open and shut to permit patrons to enter and go away by way of the practice doorways? Why hasn’t this resolution been utilized to each practice station to forestall folks from being pushed onto the tracks? Too easy an answer? MTA, give it some thought. Vincent Sandella
Bangor, Pa.: Re Voicer Mildred Manham’s letter evaluating violinists getting fired for lacking 1% of notes to cops lacking 80% of their pictures: I’m wondering what number of notes violinists would miss if somebody was taking pictures at them or charging them with a knife or bat? It’s simple to guage cops from the protection of your front room quite than be put in conditions the place it’s important to depend on intuition since you solely have seconds to react. George DeSanto
Bronx: Hey, Voicer Gladys Garcia de Birkenhead: Ever heard of empathy and compassion? Julie Reitano
Louisville, Ky.: For 50 years, the general public has been suffocated by political spins on abortion that solely make folks indignant. Many years of polls present we aren’t any nearer to a nationwide consensus than we had been in 1973. Do we would like a consensus? If that’s the case, let’s take into consideration the completely different sorts of abortion. I’ve seldom heard objections to abortions that save the pregnant individual’s life, or abortions of non-viable or horribly deformed fetuses. Rape and incest abortions appear to have widespread public acceptance, too. That leaves non-medical abortions. The general public is just not so certain about these, nevertheless, there appears to be widespread public acceptance of first-trimester abortions and pretty huge acceptance of second-trimester abortions. Why is there extra uncertainty about second- and third-trimester abortions? It appears to me that the general public needs to know extra about what personhood means or should imply in a democratic society, and particularly needs to listen to views which can be utterly separate from faith. Tom Louderback
Staten Island: To Voicer Carol Webb: Are you severe? Sunny Hostin meant simply what she mentioned. She’s hateful and racist. Some Catholic! And he or she doesn’t deal with Alyssa Farah Griffin very effectively, all the time talking over her and contradicting her — as a result of Sunny is all the time proper as a result of she’s a lawyer and her husband is a physician. Like Pleasure Behar says, “So what? Who cares!?” Maria Saporito
Bayonne: It’s attention-grabbing that in his column “Is it yes or no?” (Nov. 13), whereas castigating FIFA for urging World Cup gamers to not communicate out towards host nation Qatar’s human rights report, Bob Raissman offers Colts proprietor Jim Irsay a go for his end-around on the Rooney Rule (Irsay fired his head coach and employed a white crony mid-season to keep away from interviewing a minority substitute). And by “attention-grabbing,” I imply hypocritical! Marty Wolfson
