Joel Berg appears in the following:
Food Insecurity and Hunger in America
Monday, April 14, 2014
Joel Berg, Executive Director of New York City Coalition Against Hunger talks about why food insecurity is so high in this country and what can be done to reduce it.
Annual Feast Is A Reminder of America's Hungry
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
For many of the 47 million Americans on food stamps Thanksgiving this year will be difficult, made worse by cuts to SNAP assistance that began rolling out November 1. Joel Berg is ex...
Hunger in New York City
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Joel Berg, the executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, explains how social programs managed to prevent widespread starvation during the great recession.
Sandy Leaves Tens of Thousands Homeless
Monday, November 05, 2012
In New York City and the surrounding boroughs, suburbs, and beyond, many people are still without power and fuel, including significant parts of New Jersey and Long Island. Joel Berg,...
Food Stamp of Approval
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Joel Berg, executive director of the New York Coalition Against Hunger, and New York State health commissioner Dr. Richard Daines discuss the city and state proposal to bar the purchase of soda on food stamps for two years.
Americans Using Food Stamps More Than Ever Before
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Add this to your list of indicators that the recession isn't over yet: There are now more Americans on food stamps than at any time in history. According to a report in Archives of Pe...
YUEI: Food Stamps
Monday, April 20, 2009
Michael Paone, community organizer and anti-hunger activist, and Joel Berg, executive director of New York City Coalition Against Hunger and the author of All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America? (Seven Stories Press, 2008), talk about the increase of food stamp enrollment in the ...
Hunger in the Land of Plenty
Friday, January 16, 2009
Currently around 35 million Americans don’t have enough to eat. We look at why there is a problem of hunger in our land of plenty, and what can be done about it in a time of economic crisis. Joel Berg is executive director of the NYC Coalition Against Hunger and ...
Hunger Pains
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger and author of All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America? (Seven Stories Press, 2008), discusses the annual hunger survey for NYC.
What Are You Thankful For?
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
As families around the region get ready to gather for thanksgiving dinner, many New Yorkers still go hungry. Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, reports on the results of their annual hunger survey. And, should the movie Milk and other films be used to ...
New York City on $1.00 A Day
Monday, May 14, 2007
Queens City Councilman Eric Gioia (D) and Joel Berg, the executive director of the Coalition Against Hunger, talk about taking the “Food Stamp Challenge”-- trying to live on the average allocation of $28 a week, to call attention to the issue of hunger in New York City.
