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Take Action: Congress Must Support Critical Child Nutrition Bills. We urge Members of Congress — in the upcoming Child Nutrition Reauthorization process and economic recovery legislation — to cosponsor and continue to lift up the following bills to strengthen and expand programs.

The Stop Child Hunger Act of 2021 (S. 1831 / H.R. 3519), introduced by Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Representative Mike Levin (D-CA), would provide low-income families with children a Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card to purchase food.

Explore the impact of COVID-19 on Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) Communities, focusing on hunger, poverty, and health.

Explore the impact of COVID-19 on rural communities, focusing on hunger, poverty, and health.

Explore the impact of COVID-19 on households with low income, focusing on hunger, poverty, and health.

Explore the impact of COVID-19 on households with low educational attainment, focusing on hunger, poverty, and health.

Explore the impact of COVID-19 on intersectionality and essential workers, focusing on hunger, poverty, and health.

Explore the impact of COVID-19 on young adults, focusing on hunger, poverty, and health.

Food insecurity is part of a larger feedback cycle between poor health outcomes and poverty. The COVID-19 pandemic has applied unique pressures to these relationships, while food insecurity, poor health outcomes, and poverty simultaneously increase the risk of COVID-19 infection, transmission, and morbidity. Explore the feedback cycle and links.

Explore the impact of COVID-19 on Latinx Communities, focusing on hunger, poverty, and health.

Explore the impact of COVID-19 on American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) Communities, focusing on hunger, poverty, and health.

Explore the impact of COVID-19 on older adults, focusing on hunger, poverty, and health.

Explore the impact of COVID-19 on women, focusing on hunger, poverty, and health.

Differences between CPS-FSS and Pulse data mean that food insecurity measures from 2019 are not directly comparable with food insufficiency measures from 2020. This means that we are likely underestimating the degree of food hardship during the pandemic. Here’s why.

Explore the impact of COVID-19 on Black communities, focusing on hunger, poverty, and health.

A new Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) analysis of U.S. Department of Agriculture Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Quality Control data finds that national participation in SNAP among U.S. citizen children in households with a non-citizen dropped by 22.5 percent — more than 718,000 children — from fiscal years 2018–2019 (latest available data).