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October 15, 2020 Hispanic Heritage Month began in 1968 when President Lyndon Johnson designated a week for celebrating the contributions that Americans who can trace their roots to Spain, Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Spanish-speaking nations of the Caribbean have made to American society and culture. The week was later extended to a […]

October 14, 2020 October 12–16 is National School Lunch Week (NSLW), an annual weeklong celebration promoting the importance of school lunch and its impact on children both in and out of the classroom. NSLW may look very different this year, but school meals are more important than ever. As communities continue to respond to COVID-19, […]

The Afterschool Nutrition Programs, in normal times, provide funding to serve suppers and snacks to children alongside educational programming. These programs offered an important opportunity to combat hunger during the 2020–2021 school year as communities and families continued to feel the educational, health, and economic impacts of COVID-19. Looking ahead, it will take targeted investments [...]

Media Contact: Colleen Barton Sutton cbsutton@frac.org 703-203-7843 Statement attributed to Luis Guardia, president, Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) WASHINGTON, September 22, 2020 —The Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) is pleased that the House of Representatives passed a Continuing Resolution tonight that will go a long way in addressing childhood hunger, which has grown […]

September 17, 2020 More than 700,000 Pennsylvanians who were left out of extra SNAP “emergency allotments” when USDA denied Pennsylvania’s request for authority to issue them to all SNAP households may be able to get them pursuant to a federal court order issued on September 11. The case Gilliam v. USDA was brought in the […]