


FRAC’s latest School Breakfast Scorecard found more low-income children received free or reduced-price school breakfast through the School Breakfast Program on an average day during September 2019 through February 2020.
Now, more children will be susceptible to hunger and losing ground academically due to school closures. Pandemic-related learning loss could widen academic achievement gaps for students of low-income households. School breakfast will be critical in helping combat childhood hunger and learning loss.
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Budget Reconciliation 101
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Omnibus and Coronavirus Response Package
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Ask the Biden Administration to Implement Universal School Meals
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COVID-19 Updates
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FRAC's 2020 Report on Federal Nutrition Programs in the Southern Region
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How does P-EBT work in your state?
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How has the latest bill in congress affected Child Nutrition Programs?
Nationwide Child Nutrition Waivers
USDA Guidelines on Using Existing Authority to Implement SFSP and SSO Meal Delivery
Q&As from the USDA on the logistics of delivering meals through the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) and the Seamless Summer Option (SSO) while using existing authority.
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The Trump administration’s 2019 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) public charge rule has been removed. This victory is in no small part thanks to the tireless work of anti-hunger advocates and Protecting Immigrant Families Campaign partners who helped block the public charge rule and its harms to the nutrition, health, and well-being of immigrant families.
On March 31, attorneys representing Pennsylvania Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants secured an important victory when the Biden administration abandoned the Trump administration’s opposition to Families First SNAP Emergency Assistance going to the lowest income households already at the maximum benefit levels.
In fiscal year 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (USDA FNS) reported that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) retailer redemptions approximated $56 billion. In their recently released fiscal year 2020 data, that number dramatically increased to $78 billion. FNS attributes this 40 percent increase in redemptions to the emergency benefits provided in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The American Rescue Plan includes a provision that expands access to fruits and vegetables for mothers and children participating in the Special Supplemental Nutrition
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Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). - Advocacy Tool
Congress has an important opportunity in 2021 to improve the health of millions of our nation’s children by passing a strong reauthorization bill that protects and strengthens the child nutrition programs. These successful, cost-effective federal nutrition programs play a critical role in helping children in low-income families get access to child care, as well as to educational and enrichment activities, while improving their overall nutrition, health, development, and academic achievement.
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Even before COVID-19, more than 35 million people in the United States were living in households experiencing food insecurity. As a result of the COVID-19 crisis, Feeding America estimates that the number of individuals in food insecure households has risen to more than 45 million. COVID-19’s harsh impact on the economy threatens to persist for years.
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FRAC surveyed 54 large school districts about their breakfast and lunch participation and operating status in October 2019, April 2020, and October 2020 in order to analyze participation and program operations pre-pandemic, in the spring when schools were shuttered, and in the fall when schools were operating under a variety of school schedules.
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