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By Abby VesoulisMay 15, 2020 1:18 PM EDTSince the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered gyms, restaurants, retail shops, and other businesses across the country, more than 36 million Americans have signed up for unemployment insurance. Still on the hook for rent, car notes and utility bills, some of those newly jobless have felt they had little choice but to purchase less food.Feeding Americamdash;the nation largest domestic hunger-relief organizationmdash;is there to fill the gap. In a TIME 100 Talks interview with TIME senior editor Haley Sweetland Edwards, CEO Claire Babineaux-Fontenot said demand for the charity services has increased as much as 200% at some of its partne
stanley cup r food banks.But as Americans face economic hurdles that lead them to food charities like Babineaux-Fontenotrsquo , the organization is facing challenges of its own: Global supply chain shortages have made it difficult for food manufacturers to give away food to nonprofits, as they struggle to ship enough food to grocery chains that can pay for it. The food
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By Alexandra SifferlinJuly 21, 2014 12:38 PM EDTPresident Obama signed an executive order Monday protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people working for government contractors f
af1 rom discrimination.The order protects any employee for a federal contractor from discrimination based on their sexual orientation and/or gender identification. It covers about 28 million workers, making up one-fifth of the U.S. workforce, and includes no exemption for religious organizations.It doesn ;t make much sense, but today in America millions of our fellow citizens wake up and go to work with the awareness that they could lose their job, not because of anything they do or fail to do but because of who they are, the president told supporters at the White House, CBS News reports. America federal contracts should not subsidize discrimination against the American people.Many U.S. companies already offer protections for LGBT employees, according to data highlighted by the Obama Administration. Some 91% of Fortune 500 companies already prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and 61% prohibit discrimination based on gender identity.The five top federal contractorswhich get about a quarter of all federal contracting dollarsalready prohibit discrimin
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