Aisha Ahmad Moussa, 35, feeds her children boiled potato, a typical meal when they cannot afford anything else to eat

Update: Conflict, climate, and COVID-19 deepen the global hunger crisis

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As the pandemic continues around the world, a new reality is clear: hunger is taking more lives than COVID-19. People in hunger hotspots around the world are experiencing the direct impacts of the three lethal “Cs:” conflict, COVID-related inequality, and climate change. Since the start of the pandemic, Oxfam has worked with local partners to provide cash transfers for people in hunger hotspots, like in countries across West Africa who couldn’t afford food, daily meals for Venezuelans through the community canteen project, and provided seeds and tools to farmers in Syria.

But we know that in order to tackle the three C's of hunger, we must address the long-term, systemic inequality that is both fueling and worsening this crisis. That's why Oxfam is demanding that billionaires pay their fair share, urging wealthy polluting nations to curb their emissions, and so much more.

In a world in which so many have so much, nobody should have to experience starvation. Thanks to supporters like you, we've been able to help. But there's still so much to do. Vulnerable families around the world are counting on us – are you able to help them today?

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Tell your senators to vote Yes on the budget reconciliation package

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In response to the pandemic, the American Rescue Plan expanded the safety net to millions of Americans. The latest evidence suggests it had a major hand in bringing poverty in the US to a historic low. If the latest COVID-19 relief package passes, it has the power to change the lives of millions of Americans, including 8.27 million young children a year. Congress is still determining the line items for the bill, and we need every single member of Congress to know their constituents care about what makes it into this bill: investing in green initiatives, treating childcare as essential, strengthening workers’ rights, and more. Do your part: call your senators to ask them to vote YES on an inclusive Budget Reconciliation Package.

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Inhuman policies have human consequences: End Title 42

Seeking asylum is a human right

You may have seen the horrifying images of Haitian asylum seekers being chased and assaulted by Border Patrol agents at the United States’ southern border. We are currently suing the Biden administration over Title 42, a little-known policy being used to expel people who are legally seeking asylum. Learn more about Title 42 — and then help put a stop to this deplorable immigration policy by signing our petition to end Title 42.

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Oxfam's Best and Worst States to Work in America 2021

This year's report outlines how states rank based on how they are supporting working families, and features a new index focused on the policies that impact working women. COVID-19 has revealed just how deep inequality runs. The top four best states to work have some important things in common—robust minimum wages, substantial worker protections, and support for workers organizing.

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Voices of Change, the new podcast from Oxfam America!

We are so excited to launch this new project with you. Our first season will focus on stories of Black women in the US Deep South. Most of the women we'll be speaking with are Oxfam partners—you might recognize some of them!—but we'll also go outside our immediate Oxfam network to bring some new voices into the conversation. Check out our first episode "The Long Haul" to hear about how Willie Jones is connecting women with "nontraditional" jobs, like truck driving and IT.

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Tax the rich

As we watch the evolution of the budget reconciliation process, it's important to keep this reality top of mind: corporate profits are way up, and billionaires are amassing more wealth every day. This blog post unpacks how billionaires and corporations are skirting taxes and what we can achieve if the ultra-wealthy are made to pay their fair share. It's long past time: we need to tax the rich and big corporations.

Hurricane Ida and the climate crisis

Just before Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana this August, it underwent a process called “rapid intensification” and exploded into a monster Category 4 storm — thanks to favorable atmospheric conditions and warm ocean waters. It left the state battered, maintaining its hurricane status for 16 hours before weakening. The storm then moved up the coast to bring further devastation to New Jersey and New York City. Ida revealed just how vulnerable our infrastructure is to climate-related extreme weather events.