WASHINGTON, October 30, 2025 — We welcome President Trump’s commitment to provide November SNAP benefits, as reported in Newsweek yesterday, and urge the administration to quickly utilize the mechanism available to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide the benefits in order to limit the hunger and economic crisis that delaying benefits will cause.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2025 – The Food Research & Action Center is deeply disappointed that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) quietly released an alarming memo yesterday announcing that states have until November 1 to implement some of the most harmful cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in decades.
WASHINGTON, September 22, 2025 — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) decision to terminate future Economic Research Service (ERS) Household Food Security reports is shortsighted and dismisses the need for clarity on the extent of food insecurity for families and struggling communities across the country.
WASHINGTON, September 10, 2025 – The Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) and more than 388 national, state, and local organizations signed on to a letter urging Congress to continue its nearly 30-year of bipartisan commitment to fully fund the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), one of the nation’s largest federal nutrition programs, for fiscal year (FY) 2026.
WASHINGTON, September 9, 2025 — A staggering number of people in America continued to live in poverty in 2024, according to the latest Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) report released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.