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No One Shall MakeTem Afraid

A Secure Texas For All

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Texas United Methodist Womens Legislative Event

presented by Texas Impact


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Statewide, interfaith advocacy

Membership based

Citizen leadership development

Policy implementation

Faith-based issue education

Policy and theology research and analysis


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Orientation

! What should I expect at UMW Legislative Event?

! Whats in this enormous binder?

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Who are all these people?

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Who should I ask if I have questions?

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When can I go to the bathroom/bookstore/auction?

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What should I expect at UMW

Legislative Event?

! Up-to-date information on important policy issues

! Grounding in how United Methodist social principles relate

to the Texas Legislature

! New ideas about connecting faith and public life in yourlocal community

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New and/or deeper relationships with lawmakers and theirstaffs

! Become part of Texas Impacts network


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What should I expect at UMW

Legislative Event?

Beloved Community

Dr. Kings Beloved Community:

the kind of society in which every person is valued

and where all conflicts

are reconciled in a spirit of goodwill

and mutual benefit.


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No One Shall Make Them

Afraid


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Seeking a Secure Texas for All

He shall judge between many peoples,and shall arbitrate between strong nations far away;

they shall beat their swords into plowshares,

and their spears into pruning hooks;

nation shall not lift up sword against nation,neither shall they learn war any more;

but they shall all sit under their own vines and under their own fig trees,

and no one shall make them afraid;

for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.

Micah 4: 3-4


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Agenda Overview

Sunday 1:

Issue Workshops

(2 out of 4)

Sunday 2: Theological

Framing

Sunday 3:

Young Women

Tuesday 1:

Travel to

Capitol

Tuesday 2:

Lobby Visits

Tuesday 3:

Closing

Tuesday PS: Capitol Tour

Monday 1:

Issue Presentations

(plus lunch)

Monday 2:

Conference Caucuses

Monday 3: Lobby

Training


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Whats in this enormous binder?

! Inside the FRONT: Information about Texas Impact including a

membership form

! TAB #1: Information about the eventlike the agenda and roster ofparticipants

! TAB #2: Information about your legislative visits

! TAB #3: Information about the caucus process

! TAB #4: Issue handouts for workshops and plenary sessions

! TAB #5: Homework! Ideas, projects and assignments to take LegislativeEvent back to your community

! Inside the BACK: Cover Texas Now Postcard Kit and sample copy of

Better Neighbors


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Who are all these people?

! Legislative Event Committee

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Texas Impact/Interfaith Center Staff!

Americorps VISTA Members

! Texas Impact Board Members

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UNITED METHODIST WOMEN


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Whom should I ask if I have

questions?

! CARA Chiodo: EVERYTHING!

! CORINNA Whitaker-Lewis: Questions about the SCHEDULE

! AMY Chamberlain: Questions about LOBBY DAY

! SADIA Tirmizi: Questions about TEXAS IMPACT

! JOSH Houston: Questions about the LEGISLATURE

! SCOTT Atnip: Questions about YOUR CHURCH/UMW

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TERRY Schoenert: Questions about BUSSES

! BETSY Singleton: Questions about the HOTEL


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The mission of the Food Bank is to nourish hungry people and lead the community in ending hunger.

Everyone at the Table: How WeCan End Hunger

Kathy Green

Capital Area Food Bank of Texas

January 25, 2015


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Who Is Hungry?

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The employed!The underemployed

! Elderly

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Children! Veterans

! Currently Enlisted Military

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Single Parents


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Food Insecurity vs. Hunger

Food insecurity = a household-leveleconomic and social condition of limited oruncertain access to adequate food.

Hunger = an individual-level physiologicalcondition that may result from foodinsecurity.


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Why Is There Food Insecurity?

Unemploymentis the strongest predictor offood insecurity.

Many people who are food insecure are in

poverty, but not everyone. Some are workingenough to bejust above the poverty level.

Food Insecurity:

14.5% of people in the United States

18.3% of people in Texas

27.4% of Texas children


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Cost of Living

In Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos MetroArea, for a family of four (two adults, two

children), it takes a salary of $50,016toget by.($13 per hour, per worker)

If they are paying their own health

insurance, it goes up to $63,012


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Food for Thought

Is hunger in America an issue of foodsupply or food access?

Forty percent of food in the U.S. iswasted, and goes into the landfill.


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Food Insecurity

Rates substantially higher than the nationalaverage for:

households with incomes near or below the

Federal poverty line

households with children headed by singlewomen or single men

Black and Hispanic households large cities and rural areas than in

suburban areas


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Hunger Profoundly Affects

Our Children In early childhood, cannot learn as much, as fast, or as well

because it harms their cognitive development during thiscritical period of rapid brain growth, actually changing thefundamental neurological architecture of the brain andcentral nervous system,

Have lower academic achievement because they are notwell prepared for school and cannot concentrate,

Have more social and behavioral problems because they feelbad, have less energy for complex social interactions, andcannot adapt as effectively to environmental stresses.


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Hunger and Health

If poverty creates hunger, it teams upwith the food system to create another

form of malnourishment: obesity (andwhats called hidden hunger,a lackof micronutrients).

--Mark Bittman


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Hunger and Health

Low-income populations:

Have higher incidence of chronic disease;

Often limited access to full service grocerieswith unprocessed food;

Often a glut of access to fast food andconvenience stores: food swamps


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Federal Nutrition Programs

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program(SNAPfood stamps): entitlement program thatprovides a monthly benefit to households to purchase

food.Loaded on Lone Star Card (EBT)Used at groceries, convenience stores, farmers markets

Cannot buy alcohol, tobacco, hot foods,vitamins, or medicine

Unemployed can get benefits only 3 months in a 3-yr period

Those with felony drug convictions (but not other felonies)cannot get benefits.


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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program(SNAPfood stamps)

Limitations:

Amount received is small for some populationselderlyoffset by SS payments; avg payment/hh(canbe more than one person) is $274/mo

Application is longalthough now electronic

Can purchase any type of foodpro or con?

Drug felons cannot receivewhy an issue?


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National School Lunch/School BreakfastPrograms: federally-assisted meal program forchildren in public, non-profit private, and residentialchild care institutions.Provides reduced-cost or free meals for qualifying children

Schools are reimbursed for numbers of meals served at eachratepaid, reduced, or free

Schools must meet certain requirements in their lunch

programnutritional, financial, civil rights, and othersSchools may receive USDA commodities to offset their foodexpense.


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National School Lunch/School Breakfast ProgramsTexas Legislature passed breakfast bill during 2013 sessionprovides universal (free) breakfast for all students in schoolswith 80% or more free and reduced population.

Limitations:

Reimbursement not adequateespecially with improvednutrition standards. Current: .28 to $3.21 per mealdependingon many factors

Abiding by new competitive food standards

Stigma about school meals, especially breakfast


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The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP):provides USDA Commodities to qualifying agencies(primarily food banks) to distribute to low incomepopulations:Provided at no cost to food banks

Commonly includes canned fruits and vegetables, dried beans,peanut butter, cereals and pasta, meats/poultry/fish, dairy

Food banks redistribute to clients through partner agencies

pantries and soup kitchens


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The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP)Limitations:Supply is dependent on funding from federal governmentfluctuates greatly

Higher quality food (lower sodium, etc.) costs more

Items like peanut butter have increased in price, so we areinclined to choose less expensive foods


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Women, Infants and Children SupplementalNutrition Program (WIC): money provided forsupplemental foods, health care referrals, andnutrition education for low-income pregnant,breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartumwomen, and to infants and children up to age fivewho are found to be at nutritional risk. States receive a set amount to be redistributed to clients on

EBT cards Clients can purchase only approved foods (WIC Package)


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Women, Infants and Children SupplementalNutrition Program (WIC)

Limitations:

Only certain foods allowedWIC package redesigned recentlySet amount of fundingNOT an entitlement program

Lower breastfeeding rates among clients than generalpopulation


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Food for Thought

What is the proper role of government inensuring access to food?

SNAP is an $82.5 Billion program

Our deficit is $564 Billion


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Food Banks/The Food Bank System

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A Food Bank is a repository for both donatedand purchased food which is thenredistributed to smaller agencies that serviceclients directly

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Feeding America! 200 food banks across the country

! Feeding Texas! Texas has 21 food banks across the state, covering

all 254 counties


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Food Banks vs. Food Pantries

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Food Banks

Generally large distribution centers

Do little direct distribution to clients

Do more than just distribute food

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Food Pantries (like ATMs)

Church Pantries, Soup Kitchens, HomelessShelters etc.

Distribute food directly to the client


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Our Programs

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Kids Caf! Weekend Backpack Programs

! Healthy Options Program for the Elderly(HOPE)

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Fresh Food For Families! Summer Feeding Service Program

! Choicesnutrition education

! Mobile Food Pantry

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Social Services Enrollment


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Who We Serve

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Most of our clients are children, the elderly, andthe working poor

! 75% of our clients households had at least oneworking adult

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Only 7% of our clients report being homeless! 80% of our client households report choosing

between paying for food and paying for medicine ormedical care

! 66% of our clients households report choosing

between food and paying the rent! Many report having to rely on food assistance for

the first time in their lives


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What is Our Call?

What does God call us to do?

What can we actually affect?

Can we ever truly end hunger?


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Our Call

Our commitment to doing good

Social principle to food justice

Called to support the poor

Micah 6:8

Matthew 25


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Why Hunger?

The difference between you and the hungryis not production levels; its money. Thereare no hungry people with money; thereisnt a shortage of food, nor is there adistribution problem. There is an I-dont havethe land-and-resources-to-produce-my-own-

food, nor-can-I-afford-to-buy-food problem.

Mark Bittman


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What You Can Do

As advocates to elected officials:

Adequate funding for nutrition

programs Increase access to healthy food

No barriers to enrollment

Education about the true face ofhunger


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What You May Hear

Welfare Queens

Denial of the issue

Belief in the Bootstraps

Poor cant be trusted with $$$

Competing budget issueseducation,health care, etc.


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What You May Hear

We dont have the money

No one has time

This is how we have always done it We cant compete with

Whats one voice going to do?


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Questions?


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Great Resources

Feeding America www.feedingamerica.org

FRAC (Food Research & Action Center)www.frac.org

Center on Budget and Policy Prioritieswww.cbpp.org

Center for Public Policy Priorities (Texas org.)www.cppp.org

Family Budgets (budget estimator)www.familybudgets.org

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