In Pine Ridge, World Hunger Day arrives in October

By: Grace Ann Hansen

Outlets: South Dakota Searchlight

Published: May 28, 2026

Words: 708

Last Updated: 1 month, 4 weeks ago

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Today is World Hunger Day. For Pine Ridge, the relevant calendar is somewhere closer to October. That’s when the first compounded effects of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed by President Trump on July 4, 2025, reach the warehouse doors of the Oglala Sioux Tribe’s federal food distribution program. Politicians who vote to cut nutrition spending in the spring of an even year face voters again in the fall, six months before the …

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