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WASHINGTON, September 6, 2017 — More than 41 million Americans lived in households struggling with food insecurity — limited or uncertain access to enough food — in 2016. The 12.3 percent household food insecurity rate is still higher than the rate right before the Great Recession (11.1 percent in 2007). Studies show that food insecurity harms health, ability to learn, productivity, and the nation’s economic strength.

WASHINGTON, August 16, 2017 — There are so many great stories waiting to be written on the importance of school breakfast and afterschool meals, the need to end school lunch debt shaming, and of course, preserving essential nutrition programs in the federal budget. We hope these ideas help inspire your next story.

WASHINGTON, August 2, 2017 — Households in rural and small town counties are more likely to participate in SNAP than their metro area counterparts, according to SNAP Maps, FRAC’s new interactive data tool.

WASHINGTON, July 19, 2017 — The House Budget Committee’s fiscal year 2018 budget resolution is an all-out assault on struggling families that would make hunger in this country far worse. The committee budget overall proposes to rob the poor, sick, and hungry to further enrich the wealthiest Americans.

Smithfield Foods and the Food Research & Action Center launched Rally Against Rural Hunger, an initiative to raise awareness about rural hunger in both North Carolina and across the nation, and the strategies that exist to solve it.