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No One Shall MakeTem Afraid
A Secure Texas For All
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Texas United Methodist Womens Legislative Event
presented by Texas Impact
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Statewide, interfaith advocacy
Membership based
Citizen leadership development
Policy implementation
Faith-based issue education
Policy and theology research and analysis
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Orientation
! What should I expect at UMW Legislative Event?
! Whats in this enormous binder?
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Who are all these people?
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Who should I ask if I have questions?
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When can I go to the bathroom/bookstore/auction?
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Should I leave my cell phone on during presentations?
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What should I expect at UMW
Legislative Event?
! Up-to-date information on important policy issues
! Grounding in how United Methodist social principles relate
to the Texas Legislature
! New ideas about connecting faith and public life in yourlocal community
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New and/or deeper relationships with lawmakers and theirstaffs
! Become part of Texas Impacts network
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What should I expect at UMW
Legislative Event?
Beloved Community
Dr. Kings Beloved Community:
the kind of society in which every person is valued
and where all conflicts
are reconciled in a spirit of goodwill
and mutual benefit.
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No One Shall Make Them
Afraid
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Seeking a Secure Texas for All
He shall judge between many peoples,and shall arbitrate between strong nations far away;
they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,neither shall they learn war any more;
but they shall all sit under their own vines and under their own fig trees,
and no one shall make them afraid;
for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.
Micah 4: 3-4
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Agenda Overview
Sunday 1:
Issue Workshops
(2 out of 4)
Sunday 2: Theological
Framing
Sunday 3:
Young Women
Tuesday 1:
Travel to
Capitol
Tuesday 2:
Lobby Visits
Tuesday 3:
Closing
Tuesday PS: Capitol Tour
Monday 1:
Issue Presentations
(plus lunch)
Monday 2:
Conference Caucuses
Monday 3: Lobby
Training
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Whats in this enormous binder?
! Inside the FRONT: Information about Texas Impact including a
membership form
! TAB #1: Information about the eventlike the agenda and roster ofparticipants
! TAB #2: Information about your legislative visits
! TAB #3: Information about the caucus process
! TAB #4: Issue handouts for workshops and plenary sessions
! TAB #5: Homework! Ideas, projects and assignments to take LegislativeEvent back to your community
! Inside the BACK: Cover Texas Now Postcard Kit and sample copy of
Better Neighbors
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Who are all these people?
! Legislative Event Committee
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Texas Impact/Interfaith Center Staff!
Americorps VISTA Members
! Texas Impact Board Members
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UNITED METHODIST WOMEN
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Whom should I ask if I have
questions?
! CARA Chiodo: EVERYTHING!
! CORINNA Whitaker-Lewis: Questions about the SCHEDULE
! AMY Chamberlain: Questions about LOBBY DAY
! SADIA Tirmizi: Questions about TEXAS IMPACT
! JOSH Houston: Questions about the LEGISLATURE
! SCOTT Atnip: Questions about YOUR CHURCH/UMW
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TERRY Schoenert: Questions about BUSSES
! BETSY Singleton: Questions about the HOTEL
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The mission of the Food Bank is to nourish hungry people and lead the community in ending hunger.
Everyone at the Table: How WeCan End Hunger
Kathy Green
Capital Area Food Bank of Texas
January 25, 2015
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The mission of the Food Bank is to nourish hungry people and lead the community in ending hunger.
Who Is Hungry?
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The employed!The underemployed
! Elderly
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Children! Veterans
! Currently Enlisted Military
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Single Parents
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The mission of the Food Bank is to nourish hungry people and lead the community in ending hunger.
Food Insecurity vs. Hunger
Food insecurity = a household-leveleconomic and social condition of limited oruncertain access to adequate food.
Hunger = an individual-level physiologicalcondition that may result from foodinsecurity.
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The mission of the Food Bank is to nourish hungry people and lead the community in ending hunger.
Why Is There Food Insecurity?
Unemploymentis the strongest predictor offood insecurity.
Many people who are food insecure are in
poverty, but not everyone. Some are workingenough to bejust above the poverty level.
Food Insecurity:
14.5% of people in the United States
18.3% of people in Texas
27.4% of Texas children
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The mission of the Food Bank is to nourish hungry people and lead the community in ending hunger.
Cost of Living
In Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos MetroArea, for a family of four (two adults, two
children), it takes a salary of $50,016toget by.($13 per hour, per worker)
If they are paying their own health
insurance, it goes up to $63,012
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Food for Thought
Is hunger in America an issue of foodsupply or food access?
Forty percent of food in the U.S. iswasted, and goes into the landfill.
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Food Insecurity
Rates substantially higher than the nationalaverage for:
households with incomes near or below the
Federal poverty line
households with children headed by singlewomen or single men
Black and Hispanic households large cities and rural areas than in
suburban areas
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The mission of the Food Bank is to nourish hungry people and lead the community in ending hunger.
Hunger Profoundly Affects
Our Children In early childhood, cannot learn as much, as fast, or as well
because it harms their cognitive development during thiscritical period of rapid brain growth, actually changing thefundamental neurological architecture of the brain andcentral nervous system,
Have lower academic achievement because they are notwell prepared for school and cannot concentrate,
Have more social and behavioral problems because they feelbad, have less energy for complex social interactions, andcannot adapt as effectively to environmental stresses.
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Hunger and Health
If poverty creates hunger, it teams upwith the food system to create another
form of malnourishment: obesity (andwhats called hidden hunger,a lackof micronutrients).
--Mark Bittman
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Hunger and Health
Low-income populations:
Have higher incidence of chronic disease;
Often limited access to full service grocerieswith unprocessed food;
Often a glut of access to fast food andconvenience stores: food swamps
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Federal Nutrition Programs
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program(SNAPfood stamps): entitlement program thatprovides a monthly benefit to households to purchase
food.Loaded on Lone Star Card (EBT)Used at groceries, convenience stores, farmers markets
Cannot buy alcohol, tobacco, hot foods,vitamins, or medicine
Unemployed can get benefits only 3 months in a 3-yr period
Those with felony drug convictions (but not other felonies)cannot get benefits.
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Federal Nutrition Programs
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program(SNAPfood stamps)
Limitations:
Amount received is small for some populationselderlyoffset by SS payments; avg payment/hh(canbe more than one person) is $274/mo
Application is longalthough now electronic
Can purchase any type of foodpro or con?
Drug felons cannot receivewhy an issue?
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Federal Nutrition Programs
National School Lunch/School BreakfastPrograms: federally-assisted meal program forchildren in public, non-profit private, and residentialchild care institutions.Provides reduced-cost or free meals for qualifying children
Schools are reimbursed for numbers of meals served at eachratepaid, reduced, or free
Schools must meet certain requirements in their lunch
programnutritional, financial, civil rights, and othersSchools may receive USDA commodities to offset their foodexpense.
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Federal Nutrition Programs
National School Lunch/School Breakfast ProgramsTexas Legislature passed breakfast bill during 2013 sessionprovides universal (free) breakfast for all students in schoolswith 80% or more free and reduced population.
Limitations:
Reimbursement not adequateespecially with improvednutrition standards. Current: .28 to $3.21 per mealdependingon many factors
Abiding by new competitive food standards
Stigma about school meals, especially breakfast
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The mission of the Food Bank is to nourish hungry people and lead the community in ending hunger.
Federal Nutrition Programs
The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP):provides USDA Commodities to qualifying agencies(primarily food banks) to distribute to low incomepopulations:Provided at no cost to food banks
Commonly includes canned fruits and vegetables, dried beans,peanut butter, cereals and pasta, meats/poultry/fish, dairy
Food banks redistribute to clients through partner agencies
pantries and soup kitchens
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Federal Nutrition Programs
The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP)Limitations:Supply is dependent on funding from federal governmentfluctuates greatly
Higher quality food (lower sodium, etc.) costs more
Items like peanut butter have increased in price, so we areinclined to choose less expensive foods
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Federal Nutrition Programs
Women, Infants and Children SupplementalNutrition Program (WIC): money provided forsupplemental foods, health care referrals, andnutrition education for low-income pregnant,breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartumwomen, and to infants and children up to age fivewho are found to be at nutritional risk. States receive a set amount to be redistributed to clients on
EBT cards Clients can purchase only approved foods (WIC Package)
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Federal Nutrition Programs
Women, Infants and Children SupplementalNutrition Program (WIC)
Limitations:
Only certain foods allowedWIC package redesigned recentlySet amount of fundingNOT an entitlement program
Lower breastfeeding rates among clients than generalpopulation
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Food for Thought
What is the proper role of government inensuring access to food?
SNAP is an $82.5 Billion program
Our deficit is $564 Billion
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Food Banks/The Food Bank System
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A Food Bank is a repository for both donatedand purchased food which is thenredistributed to smaller agencies that serviceclients directly
!
Feeding America! 200 food banks across the country
! Feeding Texas! Texas has 21 food banks across the state, covering
all 254 counties
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Food Banks vs. Food Pantries
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Food Banks
Generally large distribution centers
Do little direct distribution to clients
Do more than just distribute food
!
Food Pantries (like ATMs)
Church Pantries, Soup Kitchens, HomelessShelters etc.
Distribute food directly to the client
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Our Programs
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Kids Caf! Weekend Backpack Programs
! Healthy Options Program for the Elderly(HOPE)
!
Fresh Food For Families! Summer Feeding Service Program
! Choicesnutrition education
! Mobile Food Pantry
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Social Services Enrollment
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The mission of the Food Bank is to nourish hungry people and lead the community in ending hunger.
Who We Serve
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Most of our clients are children, the elderly, andthe working poor
! 75% of our clients households had at least oneworking adult
!
Only 7% of our clients report being homeless! 80% of our client households report choosing
between paying for food and paying for medicine ormedical care
! 66% of our clients households report choosing
between food and paying the rent! Many report having to rely on food assistance for
the first time in their lives
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What is Our Call?
What does God call us to do?
What can we actually affect?
Can we ever truly end hunger?
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The mission of the Food Bank is to nourish hungry people and lead the community in ending hunger.
Our Call
Our commitment to doing good
Social principle to food justice
Called to support the poor
Micah 6:8
Matthew 25
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Why Hunger?
The difference between you and the hungryis not production levels; its money. Thereare no hungry people with money; thereisnt a shortage of food, nor is there adistribution problem. There is an I-dont havethe land-and-resources-to-produce-my-own-
food, nor-can-I-afford-to-buy-food problem.
Mark Bittman
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What You Can Do
As advocates to elected officials:
Adequate funding for nutrition
programs Increase access to healthy food
No barriers to enrollment
Education about the true face ofhunger
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What You May Hear
Welfare Queens
Denial of the issue
Belief in the Bootstraps
Poor cant be trusted with $$$
Competing budget issueseducation,health care, etc.
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What You May Hear
We dont have the money
No one has time
This is how we have always done it We cant compete with
Whats one voice going to do?
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Questions?
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Great Resources
Feeding America www.feedingamerica.org
FRAC (Food Research & Action Center)www.frac.org
Center on Budget and Policy Prioritieswww.cbpp.org
Center for Public Policy Priorities (Texas org.)www.cppp.org
Family Budgets (budget estimator)www.familybudgets.org
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