What these vendors may not know (or fully understand) is that in 1996, Congress passed the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act ... food in good faith. “People are always so worried ...

and the impact of that food stops with those who eat it. Give people cash and they spend it on goods provided by local farmers and traders, who are often poor themselves and benefit as well.

Every November, food donation boxes in offices ... Those are just some of the reasons why food that is donated to people who are vulnerable poor wind up not getting eaten incompletely.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has taken action aimed at revoking the charity status of Food for the Poor over what he says is its "unfair, deceptive" use of some donations.

When the United Nations World Food Program won the Nobel ... biggest obstacle to getting it in people’s hands. For decades, the assumption has been that poor people will make poor financial ...