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Community Eligibility: The Key to Hunger-Free Schools, School Year 2025-2026

During the 2025–2026 school year, a record 55,362 schools offered breakfast and lunch to all their students through CEP.

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  • Fact Sheet
    Implementation of the New Public Charge Rule: FAQs for Anti-Hunger and Nutrition Stakeholders

    With the implementation of the new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Public
    Charge Ground of Inadmissibility final rule beginning September 18, 2026, anti-hunger
    and nutrition stakeholders have important roles to play in explaining how federal
    nutrition programs interact with public charge and in referring people to reliable legal
    resources.

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  • Fact Sheet
    Federal Food Security Data Collection

    The federal government terminated the nation’s premier food security survey — the Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement (CPS-FSS) — in 2025. Learn how reliable, consistent, and publicly available food security data is essential for understanding hunger in America in FRAC’s fact sheet. 

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  • Report
    SNAP: An Evidence-Based Program to Improve Food Security, Health, and Well-Being

    The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the largest nutrition assistance program in the U.S. Administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), SNAP is the nation’s first line of public policy defense against hunger and undernutrition. 

    FRAC’s report examines the growing body of evidence demonstrating that SNAP is one of the nation’s most effective public health
    interventions and explores how recent federal and state policy changes threaten those gains. 

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  • Fact Sheet
    H.R. 1: Changes to SNAP Time Limits

    The budget reconciliation law (H.R. 1) significantly expands SNAP time limits. As a result, millions of adults — including caregivers, veterans, older workers, and people experiencing homelessness — face the loss of food assistance. Learn how to reduce the harm in FRAC’s fact sheet. 

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Hunger & Health
The Role of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Improving Health and Well-Being
SNAP’s role in improving health is crucially important, given the high rates of food insecurity, obesity, and diet-related chronic disease in the nation. Furthermore, leading scholars, economists, and health professionals recognize SNAP’s impacts on health and well-being.
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