Health and Hunger Policy
Lincoln County’s Fight Against Child Hunger in the Wake of COVID-19
By Matthew Schaffer West Virginia has fought a long-standing battle against poverty, especially childhood poverty.
By Matthew Schaffer West Virginia has fought a long-standing battle against poverty, especially childhood poverty.
In a deeply unsettling child neglect case that surfaced from Sissonville, West Virginia, the aching echo of Zora Neale Hurston’s words reverberates: “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
With child hunger rates rising nationwide following the end of the Public Health Emergency, rural areas such as Logan County, West Virginia, which were already vulnerable to food insecurity before the pandemic, are feeling the effects of increased demand and limited supply.