food insecurity

Urban Institute has charted how the maximum allotment for assistance through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program line up with reality. In South Carolina, it's a mixed bag.

Rock Hill's historically Black South Side neighborhood doesn't have a supermarket where most of its residents live. Through urban gardening and a centrally located market, a small nonprofit named FARMacy is bringing healthy, fresh produce to its neighbors.

ACTS, or Area Churches Together Serving, is a faith-based nonprofit that hosts eight food distribution events per month around the Aiken region. This one in Saluda County is less an event than a love story.

The effects of high inflation on gas and grocery prices is making it tougher for anyone to live, but is hitting low-income workers the hardest.

Across South Carolina, gardeners and farmers are searching for food security solutions from small-scale farms to hospital campus gardens.

The USDA has paid for school breakfast and lunch for all students for more than two years. When that stops on July 1, school districts and parents might have to contend with food insecurity in ways they weren't expecting amid rising inflation and choked supply chains.

The Mobile Pantry program is part of a larger, school-district-wide effort to address community food insecurity — an issue that has affected Rock Hill and a substantial part of South Carolina, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.

For ways you can help, scroll down to the bottom of this story.On the upside, South Carolina is a bounteous food state. We grow almost 5 million acres…