Showing posts with label food bank. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food bank. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Tales Of The New Crown: Michigan DHHS BRIDGES Falling Down - Detroit Food Banks Closing

MI Bridges
https://newmibridgeslogin.michigan.gov/
It seems Michigan Bridges is about to collapse, again.

Ah, the memories.

I remember when Michigan DHHS previously shut down because it was never designed to handle high traffic of individuals in need.

Michigan likes to kick people off from receiving benefits, like parents who have to spend the rest of their living days caring for children who were drugged, raped, beaten and tortured in Foster Care and its lab rat tiny human experimental institutions that bill Medicaid, and get federal, state and private, foreign NGO grants..... to allow the drugging, raping, beating and torture of children in Foster Care who survived being tiny human lab rats for years.

Yup.

Michigan wants parents to who have saved their children from the hell of its Child Welfare System to be put back into the Child Welfare System.

It is just a chattel issue of Parental Rights, because the parents can not provide for the necessary needs of the child, which is child abuse, and grounds to legally transfer custody and/or guardianship to a foreign, private contracted Child Welfare NGO, like an institution, so the parent can go work a slave wage midnight job, so they can take the bus to visit their child during the day.

Yup.

But, visitation of residential institutions may be suspended, due to the coronavirus, but I digress.

SACWIS sucks, too, which is how these people "maximize revenue" because not for profits can not generate revenue when it comes to Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare.

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Detroit Food Banks closing
due to the cooties
Just a nomenclature thang, you know.

https://newmibridges.michigan.gov/s/isd-welcomepage-citizen

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03/25/2020

We have food banks, now, but if you have no car, you have to take the bus, where you have to carry your food box back on the bus, but the food banks are closing due to the coronavirus, and it becomes musical locations for times and places of pick up, now.

But, I digress, again.

I am waiting for the system to crash and people be denied assistance.

Michigan likes to keep the SNAP funding for their "other" private contracted projects.

They like to use predictive modeling crap to see how much they can maximize for those Social Impact Bonds, you know.

I encourage everyone to apply for assistance, just to crash the system, skew data and demonstrate that Michigan needs to go into federal receivership for what they did to the people, particularly the children of the state.

#maytheheavensfall

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Sunday, March 15, 2020

Tales Of The New Crown: Food Banks Are Banks, Too

Feeding America came into existence for a reason.

That reason was to run fraud schemes.

There are multiple food bank fraud schemes.

Why is there even a need for a food bank?

Why are children being raised in poor families?

Poverty is manufactured for the purposes of maximizing revenues because a non profit cannot generate profit.

Poverty is just part of the industry of trafficking tiny humans because you have to feed your chattel <===(pun intended).

In the mean time, here is the link to find some food.

Actually, I must admit, the food banks have kicked their game up as of recent.

https://www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-local-foodbank
Feeding America

Feeding America Establishes COVID-19 Response Fund to Help Food Banks During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Funds will be Used to Aid the Most Vulnerable People Throughout the Country

Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization with a network of 200 member food banks across the country, today announced the establishment of the COVID-19 Response Fund to help food banks across the country as they support communities impacted by the pandemic. The $2.65 million fund will enable food banks to secure the resources they need to serve the most vulnerable members of the community during this difficult time. Still, it is impossible for the Feeding America network to address this pandemic without public and government support, so that food banks can do what they do best — feed people in need within their communities.

While the media has reported greater at-risk factors for COVID-19 among the general population, such as age and pre-existing health conditions, many may not realize food-insecure households are likely more susceptible to the virus. This is believed to be due to lesser access to adequate health care, lower resistance or compromised immune systems, stigma or bias, or lack of information about proper prevention and care.

In addition, school closures, job disruptions, lack of paid sick leave and the coronavirus’ disproportionate impact on adults age 60 and older and low-income families further contribute to the demands placed on food banks. Lost wages or sudden expenses due to illness will be increasingly burdensome for the millions of people in America who live paycheck to paycheck, especially when, according to the Federal Reserve, 40 percent of Americans don’t have enough cash on hand to cover a $400 emergency expense.

In the face of these challenges, the Feeding America network of food banks is uniquely positioned to help people who need it most. Per the most recent USDA food security report, more than 37 million people, 11 million of whom are children, face hunger. As the largest provider of charitable food assistance in the U.S., including in disaster and emergency situations, Feeding America provides more than 4.2 billion meals to people facing hunger each year.

“Our first priority is the millions of individuals, families and seniors who rely on food banks for help,” said Feeding America CEO Claire Babineaux-Fontenot. “Our member food banks are always there to help throughout the year and in times of disaster. This fund will advance their ability to respond efficiently and effectively in their communities so that food is not added to the list of worries for families during this pandemic.” Babineaux-Fontenot added, “We cannot do it alone.”

Using the COVID-19 Response Fund, Feeding America is launching national food- and fund-raising efforts to support people facing hunger and the food banks who help them. This includes building an inventory of emergency food boxes and distributing them to member food banks across the country, as well as working to get incremental funding to support other anticipated costs. Feeding America is also working with government leaders to ensure the emergency response includes strong supports in food, funds, and flexibility for federal nutrition programs.

Member food banks have started shifting operations, adding more mobile or “drive-thru” distributions wherever possible. In addition, food banks are working with partner food pantries and meal programs to minimize the risk of spreading the disease by scheduling appointments and suggesting that only one member of the household visit the pantry or distribution site in order to decrease the number of people congregating in one place.

To learn more and support efforts at the national level, visit feedingamerica.org. To support your community or affected communities directly, you can use the Feeding America food bank locator at https://www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-local-foodbank.

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Friday, January 13, 2017

Feds Link Up To Bust Its First USDA Child Welfare Scheme

Well, well, well, look at what we have here.

Another joint partnership to stop child welfare fraud!

Now, I bet you thought I was going to attack these nefarious incorporated, non-taxable, child welfare entities, but, if you are familiar with my mission, you should know that I always seem to attain a more blanketed understanding of operations.

In this FBI press release, it is seen that the USDA has partnered with the IRS.

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Drive through food bank distribution of the week for a family of 4.
(Industrial case of mustard, 2 cabbage, 4 butternut squash,pre-rotten tomatoes,
2 bags of rice, out-dated milk,and frozen-thawed-frozen-thawing chicken quarters.)


Learn more: Do Not Blame CPS, Blame Michigan
Stop Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare 
I do not want to say much about this investigative mobilization but there are mechanisms which allow individuals, rather, original sources, without legal counsel, to actually participate in the enforcement of oversight.

This oversight I shall call a false claim

Basically, it works like this:

People set up schemes to get elected officials into office by funding their campaigns through child welfare scams because these scams are exempted and excluded from external scrutiny.

Then, these people, fraudfeasors as I prefer to call them, go ahead and ramrod some policies to cut and severe resources.

I like to refer to "cut and sever" as "diffuse and disrupt" for the purposes of taking over the land.  If you create the right economic policies in a geographic area, populations will either quickly die off or move out, whether by choice or condition.

The properties abandoned, forfeited and foreclosed, will eventually revert to an unregulated, privatized, non-taxable land bank, where the land will be parceled off to private speculators, domestic and foreign, including NGOs, to secure federal contracts to rebuild the infrastructure and population, of which "The Poors" will not be eligible to participate.

These are nothing more than economic attacks on these historically disparaged populations.

Then, when the need of these populations have reached a tantamount level of poverty, a crisis of child poverty measured through, in this instance, USDA weights, then it becomes reasonably simple to set up these charitable programs to help out these "poor kids with parents who feel entitled", or whatever the political flavor of "personal responsibility" rhetoric is of the day, in order to target and secure public and private funding.

As of this moment, I can only speak upon Michigan.

Michigan has a few of these active scams.  Here is one of them.

 Feeding America of West Michigan.

Feeding America is one of these USDA programs that intends to feed hungry children.  Here is how it works.

It charges local non-profits $0.18 a pound for food, claiming administrative costs, but here is the kicker, the food is donated with tax write-offs from secondary production companies, so the quality is, well, how can I say this...literally rotten.

Then, some of these local food banks are unable to raise enough money to afford the $0.18 a pound to feed their communities, leaving families to find other ways to "supplement" their SNAP benefits which have been cut, again, under the promoted guise of relying upon these food banks.

Q:  So why is it these food banks are not feeding hungry children as they claim to be?

A1:  Land banks and food banks are unregulated.

A2:  Poverty is a crime.

A3:  Social Impact Investments demand profitable returns.

A4:  The FBI has just now partnered with USDA and IRS on this.

Qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur

Much love to the #Superfans.

More to come...

Marianna Man Sentenced to Prison in Scheme to Steal USDA Funds Intended to Feed Hungry Children

LITTLE ROCK—Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced Tuesday that United States District Court Judge D. Price Marshall Jr., sentenced James E. Franklin, Jr., 34, of Marianna, to prison for his role in a widespread scheme to steal money intended for feeding children in low income areas.

Judge Marshall sentenced Franklin, who pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud on September 16, 2016, to 24 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by two years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $380,055.36.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) feeding programs in Arkansas are administered through the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS). Sponsors who want to participate in the feeding programs must submit an application to DHS for approval. After they are approved, they can provide meals as part of the feeding programs, and they are reimbursed for the eligible meals they serve.

Franklin is the fourth defendant sentenced who was charged with involvement in a scheme to fraudulently obtain these USDA program funds intended to feed children in low income areas. Eight others have pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing. Jacqueline Mills, Dorothy Harper, and Anthony Waits are scheduled for trial on March 27, 2017, before United States District Court Judge James M. Moody, Jr.

Franklin was a sponsor for a feeding program through an organization called "JL&N Outreach." Franklin had two approved feeding site locations, one in Hughes, Arkansas and the other in Brinkley, Arkansas. Franklin claimed that he fed as many as 244 children a day in Hughes and as many as 287 children a day in Brinkley.  According to witnesses, no more than 10 children per day were fed in Brinkley and no more than 15 children per day were fed in Hughes.

Franklin was recruited by Anthony Waits. Waits’ wife, Gladys Waits, worked for DHS and approved Franklin’s application. Franklin paid Anthony Waits approximately 40% of the $380,055.36 Franklin received in the scheme.

The investigation is ongoing and is being conducted by the USDA–Office of Inspector General, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service–Criminal Investigations, and United States Marshals Service. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Jana K. Harris, Allison W. Bragg, and Cameron McCree.

If you are aware of any fraudulent activity regarding feeding programs, please email that information to USAARE.FeedingProgramFraud@usdoj.gov

Or, you can just hit me up.  Seriously.  I am sick of this shit.

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Thursday, December 27, 2012

After decades of increases, childhood obesity drops in several cities

Another reason there is such a high rate of childhood obesity in impoverished areas is due to "food deserts".  A food desert is an area where there are no grocery stores or the stores that sell decaying produce.

As families are reliant upon SNAP (food subsidies), limited funds, averaging $150 an individual, even less for a child, forces people to purchase cheap starches with long shelf lives.

After decades of increases, childhood obesity drops in several cities

When junk food, fast food, sugary drinks and breakfast cereals that are 56 percent sugar by weight meet video games, televisions in bedrooms, and a walking-averse culture, the outcome shouldn’t be that surprising. About 17 percent of children between the ages of 2 and 19 in the United States are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s more than 12 million children, and triple the rate from one generation ago.
Although the rapidly skyrocketing rate has slowed its ascent in recent years, the numbers are still staggering, and public health experts expect for long-term health risks to ensue.
Childhood Type 2 diabetes is on the rise. And obese children are more likely to grow into obese adults, carrying a higher risk of heart disease, stroke and cancer.
But amidst the troubling conundrum, some good news has been revealed.
A number of states are reporting declines in childhood obesity rates. Big cities such as New York and Los Angeles, and smaller spots such as Anchorage, Ak., and Kearney, Neb., have noted the change. And although the dips are small, mostly single-digit percentages, they provide the first sign that one the country’s most stubborn health problems may be relenting.
“It’s been nothing but bad news for 30 years, so the fact that we have any good news is a big story,” said Dr. Thomas Farley, the health commissioner in New York City.
Obesity is more widely reported for low-income children than those from affluent families — 20 percent of low-income children are obese as compared to 12 percent from affluent families — and the current declines appear to be focused in high-income, mostly white areas.
But Philadelphia, which has the highest big-city poverty rate in the country, reported that its obesity drop occurred mostly among minorities.
Philadelphia has taken assertive action in controlling sugar and junk food in the public schools, such as offering erasers instead of candy for rewards and swapping healthy foods for sugar-heavy bake sale treats.

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