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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the nation’s first line of defense against hunger, helping 42.6 million people in the U.S. put food on the table. As food insecurity and food prices continue increasing, protecting and strengthening SNAP is more important than ever. Discover SNAP’s impact across the U.S. in FRAC’s national SNAP fact sheet.

The federal nutrition programs are a critical support for tens of millions of households — helping them put food on the table during times of need. Investing in hunger prevention and relief also makes smart fiscal sense. Find budget and appropriations priorities for SNAP, child nutrition programs, TEFAP, older adults nutrition programs, FDPIR, and more in FRAC’s 2025 budget and appropriations leave behind for the National Anti-Hunger Policy Conference.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps over 42 million participants put food on the table each month, supporting food security, improving health outcomes, and boosting academic performance. Congress should again protect SNAP’s structure and funding. Learn about bills that would strengthen SNAP in FRAC’s 2025 SNAP leave behind for the National Anti-Hunger Policy Conference. 

Food insecurity is rising – cutting SNAP will make a bad situation worse in every community across the nation. Use FRAC’s 2025 Budget Reconciliation leave behind in your advocacy. 

The School Nutrition Programs, Summer and Afterschool Nutrition Programs, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) all play important roles in reducing childhood hunger, supporting good nutrition, and ensuring that students and young children are hungerfree and ready to learn and thrive. Use this 2025 leave behind for the National Anti-Hunger Policy Conference in your advocacy. 

Eight states — California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico and Vermont — have shown what’s possible with Healthy School Meals for All. Learn more in this year’s FRAC report on The State of Healthy School Meals for All.

The Reach of School Breakfast and Lunch During the 2023–2024 School Year finds that more students received school breakfast and lunch last school year compared to the previous school year, due in large part to schools adopting the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) and state-level Healthy School Meals for All (HSMFA) policies. Learn more. 

Research on the diets of SNAP recipients is complex and prone to numerous methodological challenges that can result in misleading interpretations. Learn more in FRAC’s research brief. 

Explore FRAC’s social media toolkit to find social media graphics and messages to raise awareness and protect SNAP and school meals from any cuts. Download the social media graphics here.

Discover state-level impacts of SNAP in FRAC’s Protect SNAP to Reduce Hunger and Strengthen Local Economies fact sheets.

SNAP matters. Learn why in FRAC’s new SNAP Matters two-pager, which features quotes from SNAP recipients on the federal nutrition program’s value and importance. Learn why proposed cuts to SNAP would be disastrous for people with low incomes by exploring the testimonials of SNAP participants. 

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.