Christina Cooke, Julia Knoerr, Anna Guth, Lindsay Talley | Civil Eats

Authors

Julia Knoerr is a Global Health Inequities Reporting Fellow at Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

What Cuts to the Food Safety Net Mean for People’s Lives

A woman holds a bag of pears as she waits in line to receive free food at the Richmond Emergency Food Bank. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

The Struggle for Food Sovereignty in Immokalee, Florida

People wait in line for food at the annual Thanksgiving in the Park gathering where residents of the farm worker community of Immokalee are provided with a free Thanksgiving meal. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)