Working to End Hunger in America
FRAC improves the nutrition, health, and well-being of people struggling against poverty-related hunger in the United States through advocacy, partnerships, and by advancing bold and equitable policy solutions.
Back to School 2026
School and afterschool meals help reduce hunger, support learning, and ease financial pressure on families. Visit FRAC’s Back to School hub to learn how these critical programs support children and families, and what you can do to protect them.
Policy Decisions Drive Dramatic Decline in SNAP Participation
The budget reconciliation law (H.R. 1) slashed SNAP, our nation’s first line of defense against hunger, by $187 billion and introduced harmful provisions. One year later, over 5 million people, including households with children, people with disabilities, older adults, and veterans, have lost access to the nutrition they need at a time when gas and grocery costs are skyrocketing.
FRAC is tracking the impact nationwide:
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Tell Your Senators: Support Families and Farmers, Restore Critical SNAP Funding
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Tell Congress to Stop the Reorganization of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service
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Hunger & Poverty in America
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H.R. 1 SNAP Cuts Mitigation Hub
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Healthy School Meals for All
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State-by-State CEP Fact Sheets by Congressional District
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For more than a decade, high-poverty schools across the country have been able to offer free breakfast and lunch to all students through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), reducing stigma and making it easier for children to access the nutrition they need to learn and thrive. Since becoming available nationwide in the 2014–2015 school year, CEP adoption has expanded dramatically, reaching over 27 million students in the 2025–2026 school year, and has become a cornerstone strategy for reducing childhood hunger. A new study by FRAC and the Urban Institute, Expanding the Reach and Impact of School Meals: How and Why Do Changes to the Community Eligibility Provision Affect Adoption?, examines over a decade of CEP implementation and sheds light on what drives schools to participate.
Across the country, children are putting on their backpacks and returning to school. Millions of families are also struggling to make ends meet amid higher food, child care, and transportation costs.
Late Friday evening, Senate Agriculture Committee Chair John Boozman (R-AR) released updated legislative text for the Farm Bill, and said he plans to hold the committee’s markup on Thursday, Aug. 6, at 9:30 a.m. ET.
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The federal government terminated the nation’s premier food security survey — the Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement (CPS-FSS) — in 2025. Learn how reliable, consistent, and publicly available food security data is essential for understanding hunger in America in FRAC’s fact sheet.
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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the largest nutrition assistance program in the U.S. Administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), SNAP is the nation’s first line of public policy defense against hunger and undernutrition.
FRAC’s report examines the growing body of evidence demonstrating that SNAP is one of the nation’s most effective public health
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interventions and explores how recent federal and state policy changes threaten those gains. - Fact Sheet
The budget reconciliation law (H.R. 1) significantly expands SNAP time limits. As a result, millions of adults — including caregivers, veterans, older workers, and people experiencing homelessness — face the loss of food assistance. Learn how to reduce the harm in FRAC’s fact sheet.
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The budget reconciliation law (H.R. 1), enacted in July 2025, made devastating cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), our nation’s first line of defense against hunger. Already, nearly 5 million people, including children, older adults, people with disabilities, and veterans, have lost access to food benefits as a result of the law. The House and Senate
Farm Bill proposals do not address or reverse these cuts.Read FRAC’s breakdown of how the Senate proposal misses the mark on H.R. 1.
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