Hunger in Sacramento

Week #3 Poverty: Hunger & Food Insecurity Follow-up:

• Ready To Make A Difference?: Take Action >

Ø  River City Food Bank - Thank you to last week’s speaker Eileen Thomas, Executive Director of the River City Food Bank. If you’re interested in knowing more about her organization, please see the links below:

• River City Food Bank > http://rivercityfoodbank.org/
• Get Involved > https://rivercityfoodbank.org/get-involved/

• 8 myths about hunger in America https://mazon.org/what-we-do/articles-and-op-eds/8-myths-about-hunger-in-america

• Capitol Public Radio: The View From Here http://www.capradio.org/news/the-view-from-here/2017/09/05/place-and-privilege/ Capital Public Radio’s latest multimedia documentary project The View From Here: Place And Privilege explores the history, politics and economics of housing affordability in California's capital. We map the crisis through the personal stories of neighbors who are hit the hardest and living on the edge. 

Place and Privilege is an hour-long radio documentary, an eight-part podcast and an interactive website featuring exclusive web stories, community voices, photos, videos and graphics, which explore the data in compelling ways. The project also involves on-the-ground community engagement activities that bring diverse residents together to share stories, listen to one another and problem solve.

• CALmatters: Californians: Here’s Why Your Housing Costs Are So High by Ben Christoper and Matt Levin >https://calmatters.org/articles/housing-costs-high-california/

• McKinsey Global Institute: Closing California’s housing gap by Jonathan Wetzel, Jan Mischke, Shannon Peloquin, and Daniel Weisfield > http://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/urbanization/closing-californias-housing-gap

• Week #3 Poverty MS Power Point presentation slides: Please see the attached slides from Week #3.

• Forum Sept. 21^st Speaker Bob Erlenbusch’s Homeless slideshow: Please see the attached slideshow form last by SRCEH (Sacramento regional Coalition to End Homelessness) Executive Director Bob Erlenbusch.

• Upcoming Events:

Ø  Forum Speaker Oct 19, 2018 - Blake Young, President & CEO Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services (SFBFS): Making a county wide change to the broken food system

There are over 50 million people in the United States today who are hungry or food insecure. Over 240,000 of these hungry or food insecure people – almost one of every six people you meet - live in Sacramento County. Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services (SFBFS) partners with over 220 local agencies to distribute food to individuals and families in under-served areas throughout Sacramento County. Blake Young, the SFBFS CEO, manages an annual budget of $10 million and a staff of 85 with over 8, 000 volunteers. Blake has served with SFBFS for over 20 years and has been the CEO since 2005. He will share his organization’s vision of how to make a county-wide change to the broken food system.

Reposted from the class, !0 Top Decisions . 

Film: the Heist

·         Two questions to ponder this week:

1.      What is a Great America?

2.      What am I “for” in America?

·         Film: Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? “HEIST: Who Stole the American Dream? is a feature documentary which investigates the roots of the current economic crisis, and the ongoing assault on working people in the United States. It tells the hidden story of the systemic, multifaceted corporate attack on the middle class that, starting in the 1970s, transformed America's well-regulated economy into a battlefield littered with foreclosed homes, runaway jobs, and broken dreams. The American economy has been eviscerated due to four decades of deregulation, the outsourcing of forty-million manufacturing jobs, and self-serving tax policies that have created a new class of robber barons. Today's news blames Americans' devastated 401(k)'s and collapsed home values on financial earthquakes within the last two years. But HEIST traces these seismic shifts back to their roots in the early 1970s. It shows how large corporations - acting through lobbying organizations like the Business Roundtable and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce - began a political mobilization that would propel the largest transfer of wealth in history. The winners were the wealthiest 1% of our population. The losers were ordinary Americans, whose real income has barely increased since 1973. HEIST exposes the full story: how corporate leaders worked with elected officials of both major political parties to create the largest transfer of wealth in history, looting the economy to create a gap between rich and poor previously seen only in impoverished colonial nations. It reveals the impact of the infamous Powell memo of 1971, which was a call to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for American business to defend its interests against criticisms of unregulated capitalism. 'HEIST'..."has the virtue of taking the long view of a crisis that recent films like “Inside Job” and “Too Big to Fail” have only sketchily explored. It makes a strong case that government regulation of business is essential for democracy to flourish." —Stephen Holden, New York Times