Find an expert on solutions to ending hunger in America.
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Fighting Harmful Cuts to SNAP and Food Assistance Programs
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Households Food Security Data
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The Impact of Budget Reconciliation on Hunger
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Protecting Access to School Meals
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Challenging SNAP Restrictions and Waivers
- Bridging the Summer Hunger Gap with Summer EBT
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Momentum Building for Healthy School Meals for All
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SNAP Director: Gina Plata-Nino | Bio
Topics: SNAP, College Hunger
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- The Restoring Food Security for American Families and Farmers Act of 2025 would repeal the devastating cuts made to SNAP in the budget reconciliation law
- SNAP food restriction waivers harm millions of households, overburden state agencies, and damage local economies.
- Millions of college students nationwide rely on SNAP as a critical resource for accessing food to fuel their health and learning.
- Research consistently demonstrates that SNAP improves the health, nutrition, and well-being of millions of households.
FRAC Chat Blogs
In the News
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- Some states set to impose SNAP bans on soda, candy and other foods (CBS News)
- Food Stamp Cuts Could Deal a Blow to Small Grocers (The New York Times)
Child Nutrition Programs & Policy Director: Alexis Bylander | Bio
Topics: School Breakfast Program, National School Lunch Program, Afterschool Nutrition Programs, Summer Nutrition Programs
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- Healthy School Meals for All — offering school breakfast and lunch to all students at no charge to families —helps ensure that all children have the nutrition they need to grow and thrive.
- Cuts to SNAP are cuts to school meals. When children lose their SNAP benefits, they lose their automatic eligibility for free school meals.
FRAC Chat Blogs
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Deputy Director of Child Nutrition Programs & Policy:
Clarissa Hayes | Bio
Topics: Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)
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- Leveraging CACFP for Farm to Early Care and Education.
FRAC Chat Blogs
In the News
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- State lawmakers weigh costs, benefits of school policies, programming (Alaska’s News Source)
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No free lunch? School districts work to feed students as meal debt soars. (The Christian Science Monitor)
Senior Child Nutrition Policy Analyst: Erin Hysom | Bio
Topics: Community Eligibility Provision
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- More than 27 million children nationwide can access school meals at no charge through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP).
- CEP allows high-need schools to continue to offer free meals to all students, but many high-need schools are not participating and too many schools are not eligible.
- CEP decreases the administrative burden on school staff and on parents and caregivers, eliminates unpaid meal fees, and facilitates the use of alternative breakfast models.
FRAC Chat Blogs
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- Disruptions in SNAP could impact free meals in schools, advocates warn (Radio IQ)
- Free School Meals as Dignity, Equity, and Collective Care (The Giving Garden Podcast)
WIC Deputy Director: Kate Scully | Bio
Topics: Special Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
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- WIC is a lifeline for nearly 6.5 million pregnant and postpartum women and young children, including roughly half of all infants born in the U.S.
- WIC’s enhanced Food Package to strengthen program participation and improve health outcomes.
- Ensuring WIC remains fully funded to protect access to essential nutrition resources and support, including healthy foods, nutrition education, breastfeeding support, and healthcare referrals.
FRAC Chat Blogs
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- What the Shutdown Revealed About Food and Agriculture Policy (Civil Eats)
- Nutrition program for women, infants and children to stay afloat through end of month (News From the States)
Senior Child Nutrition Policy Analyst:
Kelsey Boone | Bio
Topics: Summer EBT
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- More than 21 million children in 38 states and the District of Columbia to benefit from Summer EBT in 2026.
- Summer EBT offers an exciting opportunity to reduce summer hunger by providing additional resources to purchase food during the summer months.
- Summer EBT provides targeted assistance to families with low incomes while generating significant local economic activity.
- State-funded alternatives to Summer EBT do not work and reach far fewer children at much higher costs.
- Cuts to SNAP set to block children from accessing Summer EBT, weakening a key tool to fight summer hunger.
FRA Chat Blogs
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Director of State Initiatives: LaMonika Jones | Bio
Topics: Grocery Store Access, D.C. Hunger and Maryland Hunger (School Breakfast Program, National School Lunch Program, Afterschool Nutrition Programs, Summer Nutrition Programs)
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- Closing the grocery store gap: Residents in Wards 7 and 8 still have limited access to grocery stores.
- The Give SNAP A Raise Amendment Act will be a significant step forward in ensuring thousands of D.C. residents have access to healthy food.
- H.R. 1 strips away vital food assistance from millions of people across the country, including nearly 700,000 Marylanders who rely on SNAP to put food on the table.
- Over 600,000 Marylanders, or more than 1 in 10 households, live in poverty and struggle against hunger.
- Making free Healthy School Meals for All available to all students in the state of Maryland.
- Closing the grocery store gap in the nation’s capital.
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