In today’s rundown: 13% of D.C. homes struggle with hunger. | How locals are responding to a proposal to limit welfare benefits and the announcement that a big box store is coming to D.C. | A Women’s Foundation donor is named a Philanthropist of the Year.
— Nearly 13 percent of D.C. households are struggling with hunger, reports our Grantee Partner DC Hunger Solutions. 4.5 percent of residents are living in households that have “very low food security.”
— In her latest column, The Washington Post‘s Petula Dvorak takes a look at two pieces of big news in the District this week: the announcement that Wal-Mart would be opening four stores in D.C. and Council member Marion Barry’s proposal to limit TANF benefits to five years for local residents.
— The Washington Post also reports that many of the 500 people who applied for positions at D.C.’s new IHOP were overqualified for the positions. A large number had also been looking for work for more than six months.
— Carol Trawick has been named 2010 Philanthropist of the Year by the Community Foundation of Montgomery County. The organization chose Trawick because of her work with more than 90 nonprofits in the county through the foundation she and her late husband started, reports The Washington Post.
