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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.

A full, fair, and accurate census is a necessary precursor to our nation’s efforts to address poverty and food insecurity. Below is a quick overview of the census, why the census is so critical to addressing hunger, and why anti-hunger advocates need to get involved in census-related activities.

Are you missing out on the National Anti-Hunger Policy Conference? While nothing will compare to sharing advocacy experiences with 1,000+ of your peers, we’ll be livestreaming and live-tweeting a selection of speaker sessions and workshops!