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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. 

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.