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The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) supports students, families, and schools. Find your state’s CEP fact sheet here. 

FRAC’s Supporting Academic Success With School Breakfast: A Guide for Secondary School Principals is designed to help school principals address barriers to school breakfast participation, strengthen their school breakfast programs, support families, and improve students’ health, academic performance, and overall well-being.

The Thrifty Food Plan (TFP), created in 1975, is the cheapest of four U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) plans, attempting to represent the weekly cost of buying food on a limited budget to maintain a healthy diet. The last Farm Bill created a necessary pathway to ensure that the USDA Food and Nutrition Service updates the Thrifty Food Plan every five years.

This one-pager underscores why Congress must continue to re-evaluate SNAP benefits every five years to keep up with the latest dietary guidelines and market prices.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the nation’s first line of defense against hunger, providing households with low incomes much-needed, targeted assistance to purchase food. Without SNAP, hunger in this country would be far worse. Find nine key reasons why SNAP must be protected in FRAC’s updated SNAP Strengths fact sheet. 

Find best practices and lessons learned from the first year of Summer EBT implementation in FRAC’s Summer EBT Outreach and Advocacy Toolkit. 

Share this graphic on social media to show your opposition to proposed cuts to school meals. 

Could you get the nutrition you need
on just $6 a day? That is the daily
reality for more than 40 million people
across the country who rely on the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP). Take FRAC’s SNAP Challenge, set for March 18–20, to get a glimpse of what life is like for tens of millions of people who struggle to put food on the table.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Medicaid are two of the most effective entitlement programs for fighting poverty in the U.S. There are significant opportunities for the programs to work together to meet the nutritional and health needs of people in America struggling with poverty. Learn more in FRAC’s research brief. 

More than 23 million children attending high-poverty schools had access to healthy school meals at no charge through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) during the 2023–2024 school year, according to a new FRAC report. 

Health care providers have a unique opportunity to play a significant role in addressing food insecurity. This research brief explores the benefits that are available to eligible patients through SNAP, the proven health outcomes that SNAP recipients experience compared to eligible nonparticipants, and the benefits that health systems at large experience when food insecurity is addressed.

Curious about Budget Reconciliation? Trying to learn more about the process and steps to look out for? Explore this three-page report to help you prepare for the Budget Reconciliation process.

While the role of artificial intelligence (AI) for social service providers has not been studied yet, some states have already begun to weave automation into certain administrative processes. What impact could AI have on expanding access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and other critical nutrition supports? Learn more in FRAC’s fact sheet, What Does Artificial Intelligence Mean for SNAP?

Learn how FRAC worked throughout the year to advance bold and equitable policy solutions in the fight against hunger in FRAC by the Numbers 2024.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the cornerstone of the nation’s nutrition and food security safety net, helping to put food on the table for over 41 million people each month. Use FRAC’s latest leave behind, Congress Must Protect and Strengthen the Federal Food and Nutrition Programs in the End of the Year Spending Package, for your 2024 advocacy. 

Criminals are attacking the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by stealing benefits from participants through “skimming” crimes. Learn more about this rising form of Electronic Benefit Transfer fraud in FRAC’s fact sheet.