Meet the Filmmakers of Finding North, a Documentary about Hunger in America

A new documentary about hunger in America called “Finding North" was screened at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in Park City, UT, and received excellent reviews from The Los Angeles Times and Variety Magazine. The film shows several families in the United States struggling with food insecurity, demonstrating the extensive reach of hunger in America. I had a chance to interview the film's two directors, Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush, and asked them about their inspiration and what they learned about the complexities of hunger. Read their responses below, and watch the film trailer for a sneak peak at this exciting new documentary. 

(From Bread for the World Blog at:

blog.bread.org/2012/03/meet-the-filmmakers-of-finding-north-a-documentary-about-hunger-in-america.html

Or view the trailer below:

Gov. Rick Snyder aims to stop truancy; cut welfare if children skip school

It's a question city leaders have grappled with for decades, how to keep youths off the streets and away from lives of crime.

Gov. Rick Snyder proposed his answer Wednesday while discussing public safety (in Flint).  Let's get kids back in the classroom, Snyder said.


The governor proposed a program to stop truancy in public schools, calling on the Michigan Department of Human Services to put more social workers in public elementary schools in Flint, Detroit, Pontiac and Saginaw.
"I also call on DHS to require regular school attendance as a condition for eligibility for temporary cash assistance," Snyder said.

Current policy only requires school attendance for children ages 16-18 to be eligible for cash assistance to parents, he said.

"There's nothing that says, if you're 8 years old, you have to go to school," he said. "How dumb is that?"

www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2012/03/gov_rick_snyder_aims_to_stop_t.html