Working to End Hunger in America
FRAC is the leading national nonprofit organization working to eradicate poverty-related hunger and undernutrition in the United States.
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2020 Editorial Calendar
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FRAC's School Meal Debt Resources
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Eight Ways to Increase Participation in Afterschool Suppers
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10 Facts Every Candidate Should Know About Hunger
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Refundable Tax Credits Are Critical To Reducing Poverty and Hunger For Women, Children, and Families and Should Be Expanded
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Afterschool Meals Program Fact Sheet
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Tools You Can Use — Increase Participation in Afterschool and Summer Programs
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Developing an Afterschool Meals Outreach Plan
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Child Nutrition Reauthorization: Priorities to Improve and Strengthen Child Nutrition Programs
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Initiatives to Make SNAP Benefits More Adequate Significantly Improve Food Security, Nutrition, and Health
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SNAP Strengths
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Protect the Federal Nutrition Programs
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The Role of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Improving Health and Well-Being
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The COVID-19 virus presents particular challenges for low-income people. To ensure those who lack resources to stockpile food and other basic necessities, and who rely on school breakfast and lunch to help feed their children nutritious food, administrators and legislators should consider adapting Disaster SNAP and disaster provisions of other federal nutrition programs to provide nutrition resources for low-income consumers and to make up for disrupted school meals service; suspending implementation of rules changes that weaken SNAP benefits and enrollment; and increasing SNAP benefit amounts to bolster the program’s countercyclical impacts.
Twenty-eight years ago, FRAC released its first School Breakfast Scorecard.
In this three-part blog series, FRAC’s Founding Executive Director, Ron Pollack, explores FRAC’s role in the expansion of three programs: WIC, SNAP, and school meals.
When the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) began its work 50 years ago, the political context and the programmatic infrastructure for ending hunger in America were significantly different. They contrast quite significantly with the situation today.
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A list of state website responding to covid-19 and school meal sites.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued the first set of nationwide child nutrition program waivers based on the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. The three nationwide waivers will support Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) providers and programs in maintaining access to nutritious meals for children in the current COVID-19 public health emergency.
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The Families First Coronavirus Response Act creates the Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) program, an important opportunity to provide nutritional resources to families who are losing access to free or reduced-price school meals as school across the country close in response to COVID-19. This resource provides information on the program and helpful information for implementation, including helpful resources.
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FRAC’s update summarizing the Families First Act’s changes to Child and Adult Care Food Program waivers.
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