Helping the hungry eat well: Two of our favorite blogs, Beyond Bread and Change.org’s Sustainable Food blog, came together this week in a post that hits on some of my favorite things to talk about: cooking; the connection between hunger, obesity and malnutrition; food deserts; and last but never least, hummus. Check out this edition of NPR’s Living on Earth for more on food deserts and malnutrition and this article for a different opinion.

Poverty experiment is an eye opener: Experimenting with downward mobility teaches community advocates in Utah about the day to day difficulties that low-income people face, from dealing with unexpected crises, like a broken car, to just “being a little hungry all the time.”

The cost of shelter: The controversial decision to start charging people with jobs for shelter space in New York City has garnered lots of media attention over the past couple of weeks. Is this “preposterous” and “inhumane” or just a sign of the times? 

First Lady Speaks to Corporation For National and Community Service: When it comes to service, Michelle Obama has been walking the walk by volunteering all over DC, and this week, she also talked the talk at a meeting of the Corporation for National and Community Service:

When I thought about the things that I cared about, the things that I was passionate about, service was always somewhere in there…So my goal was to figure out how I could not do that in my spare time, but how I could make my work service.

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