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Direct certification, an electronic datamatching process, is an important tool for ensuring that low-income children receive free breakfast and lunch without barriers.

Making breakfast part of the school day and offering breakfast for free to all students allow schools to overcome the common barriers to school breakfast participation.

This table highlights the impact of school breakfast legislation by state.

Remember this December that hunger is solvable with the federal nutrition programs. Download and share these graphics to help spread the word!

Use this video and these infographics on social media to support National Comment Day, November 19, 2018.

Many school districts and a number of state policies include providing a reimbursable school lunch to students regardless of their ability to pay. These districts can take important steps to reduce or eliminate the school meal debt that this approach can incur. Strategies include offering school breakfast, school lunch or breakfast and lunch at no charge to all students when it is financially viable; taking steps to ensure that all students who are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals are certified to receive them; implementing USDA policies that can help reduce school meal debt; and responding quickly when students begin to accrue debt.

This interactive map, produced in collaboration with the AARP Foundation, shows the share of all households with seniors (60+) in each state that participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) at the state, metropolitan, small town, and rural levels.

This interactive map, produced in collaboration with the AARP Foundation, shows the share of all households with seniors (60+) that participate in SNAP in each county. Each county within a state is grouped into one of three categories: Metro, Small Town, and Rural.

This paper provides a brief overview of the importance of early nutrition; briefly summarizes the harmful impacts of food insecurity on infants and young children; and highlights research demonstrating the effective role of the federal nutrition programs during early childhood in improving food and economic security, dietary intake, health, and development.

FRAC’s report on participation data in the Afterschool Nutrition Programs measures how many children had access to afterschool suppers and snacks in October 2017, nationally and in each state. 1.2 million low-income children benefited from afterschool suppers in October 2017, an 11.3 percent increase from the previous year.

This interactive map highlights participation in the Afterschool Supper Program and Afterschool Snack Program for each state.

Since the nationwide expansion of the Afterschool Meal Program was authorized in 2010, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, sponsors, state agencies, and anti-hunger, afterschool, and child advocates have been working to increase the number of programs and children participating. This fact sheet details promising practices that can help increase the reach of afterschool suppers.

Graphics on senior use of SNAP.

National School Lunch Week 2019 is October 14 – 18! Now’s the time to make some noise about the importance of school meals, including school lunch, to the health, academic success, and well-being of school-aged children.

This interactive graph shows household food insecurity rates by census region, from 2007-2017. Scroll over the trend line for each region to see the percent of households struggling with food insecurity by year.