WASHINGTON, August 12, 2019 — The Trump administration posted the final public charge rule in the Federal Register. The rule would increase hunger and poverty in the U.S., and force immigrant families — including those with U.S. citizen children — to make impossible choices between food and family. FRAC strongly opposes this deeply flawed, mean-spirited rule.
WASHINGTON, July 23, 2019 — The Trump administration today issued a proposed rule that would take food assistance away from 3 million people by making them ineligible to participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the nation’s first line of defense against hunger.
WASHINGTON, July 10, 2019 — Too many children across the country are missing out on the nutrition they need during the summer months when the school year — and access to school breakfast and lunch — ends, according to a new report from FRAC. Hunger Doesn’t Take a Vacation: Summer Nutrition Status Report finds that only 1 in 7 of the low-income children who participated in school lunch during the 2017–2018 school year received a summer lunch on an average weekday in July 2018.
The Food Research & Action Center strongly supports legislation that was introduced this week to ensure low-income children across the country have access to the nutrition they need during the summer months when they lose access to healthy school meals.
WASHINGTON, June 20, 2019 — FRAC announced its support of the No Shame at School Act, introduced by Rep. Ilhan Omar and Sen. Tina Smith, both Democrats from Minnesota. The bill would ban any kind of identification of students who cannot pay for lunch at school, like wristbands or hand stamps, and not allow schools to publish lists of students who owe money for school meals or use debt collectors to recoup meal fees.
