If you skipped breakfast today, you may be finding it difficult to concentrate. You’re not alone. Tight family budgets and busy morning schedules can mean many students arrive at school hungry and unprepared for the day ahead. Fortunately, the national School Breakfast Program can give students a better start to their school day.
Here are four memorable quotes from inimitable Black civil rights, anti-hunger, and anti-poverty advocates, meant to provide inspiration for taking action to end hunger and poverty in your community.
With just two weeks to go until the 2017 National Anti-Hunger Policy Conference, we hope you’re getting ready for your trip to Washington, DC. Haven’t registered yet? Do it today and end hunger now.
With the unveiling of FRAC’s exciting new collaboration with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Kofi Essel, MD, a General Academic Pediatrics Fellow at the Children’s National Health System in Washington, DC, weighs in on childhood food insecurity in the U.S. and the launch of the new AAP-FRAC toolkit, Addressing Food Insecurity: A Toolkit for Pediatricians.
Food Research & Action Center President James Weill addressed audiences in honor of former Under Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services, Kevin Concannon, celebrating his role and response to the Great Recession over the last nine years as well as the obstacles facing the incoming leadership.
