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Oklahoma nonprofit gets record-breaking grant to expand healthy food access in Tulsa and beyond
Communities in Tulsa that battle with meals safety will quickly see extra fruits and veggies.
This month america Division of Agriculture introduced that nonprofit Starvation Free Oklahoma will obtain a record-breaking $14.2 million over 4 years to broaden a program known as Double Up Oklahoma that will get produce to low-income communities.
It really works by matching {dollars} from SNAP, a federal diet help plan. After SNAP recipients purchase groceries, they rise up to $20 per day within the type of a voucher or credit score to spend solely on produce.
Chris Bernard, CEO of Starvation Free, stated this system helps communities as an entire as a result of it brings extra wholesome meals to shops for everybody.
“As an alternative of ordering produce as soon as every week, they’re ordering it three or 4 instances every week which implies more energizing produce for that entire group, whether or not they use our program or not,” stated Bernard.
Bernard additionally stated this system contributes a bigger number of produce.
“Shops can afford to begin to order new merchandise and see what folks like. So it’s been actually enjoyable to look at during the last two years and we’re excited to see it broaden.”
The plan for the grant is to department out to extra shops in Tulsa and past. Bernard stated seven rural communities have this system now, however with the brand new funds, he’s hoping as many as 40 could possibly be reached. 10,000 persons are at present enrolled; Bernard stated the goal is not less than 40,000 by the tip of the four-year grant interval.
The cash, which Bernard stated he thinks is the most important award in historical past for this specific USDA program, was a match effort. Starvation Free really rose $21 million however the return from the USDA was capped at $14.2 million.
Donors included companies within the Tulsa group, with about $9 million coming from Ascension St. John. The state is contributing a recurring $1.1 million a 12 months, and the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Belief will give $6.3 million over the following two years for a complete three-year dedication.
In Tulsa proper now, this system operates in Oasis Market at Pine and Peoria, by means of R & G Household Grocers, and in farmers markets.
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New HBO Documentary Explores the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing — a ‘Crossroads’ for Homegrown American Terrorism
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The Oklahoma City Bombing was “a crossroads” for America and its battle against homegrown extremism, according to a new Max documentary that examines the 1995 domestic terrorist attack and what led up to it.
HBO’s new documentary, An American Bombing: The Road to April 19, begins streaming on Max on April 16 at 9 p.m. ET.
The documentary “looks at the surge in homegrown political violence through the story of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, showing the roots of anti-government sentiment and its reverberations today, along with the emotionally charged warnings of those who suffered tragic losses in the deadliest homegrown attack in U.S. history,” according to the streaming service.
It also includes interviews with former President Bill Clinton, bombing survivor Nancy Shaw, investigative reporters Mike Boettcher and Bob Sands, a number of victims’ family members, as well as handfuls of local and federal officers who investigated the case.
The 1995 bombing killed 168 people, including 19 children, and injured 680 in total. The explosion occurred when American terrorist Timothy McVeigh ignited a truck bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building – two years to the day after the 1993 Waco massacre.
The Oklahoma City Bombing was “the worst act of homegrown terrorism in the nation’s history,” according to the FBI, and was rooted in McVeigh’s far-right “extremist ideologies and his anger over the events at Waco two years earlier.”
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“It was anger against the federal government’s exploitation of farmers,” one interviewee explains in the trailer for the series, which also includes interviews with McVeigh’s childhood friend.
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McVeigh, a former member of the U.S. Army, worked with co-conspirator Terry Nichols, who helped him build the bomb using 4,800 pounds of fuel, oil, and fertilizer PEOPLE previously reported.
McVeigh was later executed and Nichols was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the attack.
An American Bombing: The Road to April 19, begins streaming on Max April 16 at 9 p.m. ET.
Supporters of raising the minimum wage can start collecting signatures Tuesday on an initiative petition to put the issue on a ballot.
Proponents of State Question 832 have 90 days to collect 92,263 signatures for the proposal to be put on the ballot. Under state law, the number of signatures for a citizen-initiated ballot measure that amends state law must be 8% of the votes cast in Oklahoma’s latest gubernatorial election.
SQ 832 would gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2029. From the year 2030 on, the wage would rise each year at the same rate as the cost of living as it is measured by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Consumer Price Index. Currently, Oklahoma’s minimum wage matches the federal minimum wage at $7.25 an hour.
This comes after unsuccessful legal challenges from the State Chamber of Oklahoma and Oklahoma Farm Bureau. The entities asserted the proposal would violate the state constitution.
Last month, though, Oklahoma’s Supreme Court ruled that they disagreed in a 7-2 decision and the initiative petition could move forward.
No more signatures will be accepted after 5 p.m. on July 14.
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