A South by Southwest Conference & Festivals panel examined food insecurity in Texas and how important it is to put people who’ve experienced this at the forefront of public policy.
AUSTIN, Texas — As Texas leaders boast about the state’s economic growth, people experiencing hunger are in every county. A South by Southwest Conference & Festivals panel examined food insecurity in Texas and how important it is to put people who’ve experienced this at the forefront of public policy. Speakers on the panel at the Hilton Austin on March 13 insisted attendees sharpen their awareness of hunger and understand the political challenges ahead of us all to eradicate it.
“So, that goes to show you a sense of where we need to have a national response, a collective response to hunger. Charity cannot be relied on to address a problem that’s this big in scope.” Picasso said she knew of some public assistance programs, but it would have taken time away from her job had she gone to fill them out. “The inaccessibility or lack of convenience for me was trying to get to the [public assistance] office just to fill out paperwork. It didn’t fit my lifestyle, because if I did that, I’d miss work, and if I missed work, that was less money,” Picasso stated.
Picasso eventually got help from a friend who told her about the San Antonio Food Bank. Now, an advocate for social inequities, she used services like the food bank and others to find a way out of homelessness.The panelists agreed that public assistance programs like SNAP and others need to be greatly upgraded, and to do that it’s going to take listening to people that have lived those experiences of hunger and food insecurity.
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