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1 in 5 Latinos suffer from hunger in the United States

According to the Food Research and Action Center, African American and Latino communities suffer the most from hunger in the USA due to systemic racism, which results in higher levels of poverty, lack of access to healthy food, and wage discrimination, among other causes.

Of the 38 million people suffering from food insecurity in the USA, 11 million are Latinos, 9.5 million are African Americans and 2.4 million are Native Americans, according to a new study by Feeding America.

For a household struggling to pay for housing, utilities, transportation, and other necessities, the added burden of high food prices can have a significant impact on the household budget.

This is because nutritious foods tend to be expensive, and therefore often out of reach for low-income populations. For this reason, measures should be taken to address food inequities and help make food more accessible to millions of people, according to Kymberly Graham, vice president and head of diversity initiatives at NielsenIQ, a global data and analytics company.

The best way to reduce food insecurity is by supporting and donating to programs or organizations that help alleviate food insecurity. Organizations like Feeding America, a network with over 200 food banks, help provide 6.6 billion meals to people in need across the United States.

Source: CNN, Feeding America, Food Research and Action Center.

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Higher likelihood of asylum denial for Haitians by the United States

Gibbens Revolus, his wife Lugrid, and their 2-year-old son Diego have had to experience firsthand the contempt, racism, and struggles of many Haitian immigrants as they undertake the difficult journey to the border between the United States and Mexico from Chile.

Gibbens Revolus, his wife Lugrid, and their 2-year-old son Diego have had to experience firsthand the contempt, racism, and struggles of many Haitian immigrants as they embarked on the difficult journey to the border between the United States and Mexico from Chile, only to end up like around 15,000 other Haitians in unsanitary conditions at the International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas, awaiting asylum.

Revolus has sought opportunities since his country entered a growing crisis due to the aftermath of the devastating earthquake, political instability due to the death of President Jovenel Moïse in July, as well as a wave of gang violence and uncontrollable kidnappings.

Gibbens embarked on his journey from Haiti to Chile, where he found work in a butcher shop, stocking refrigerators and shelves, barely enough to cover his basic needs. However, attitudes toward Haitians soon changed. «Two coworkers tried to stab me,» says Revolus, who was in Chile on a work visa.

Feeling that growing pressure in Chile, he decided to begin his journey to the US border at the beginning of this year, where, according to him, they lived through a hell that took them 3 months of travel by bus, several days walking and crossing from Colombia to Panama in a crowded boat, only to end up being deported by the border patrol on September 27.

“We were just looking for a better life, but they turned us away” … “After each of the decades of US meddling in Haiti’s affairs, I really believed I would be allowed to ask for asylum at the border,” Gibbens says, speaking on his cell phone from Port-au-Prince.

Now Revolus and his family, like many other Haitian immigrants, remain back in a territory where the rule of law seems to have collapsed.