Media Contact: Jordan Baker jbaker@frac.org 202-640-1118 Statement attributed to Luis Guardia, president, Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) WASHINGTON, August 19, 2020 — The Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) is calling on Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue to use his authority to extend the child nutrition waivers that were available in the spring through […]
August 19, 2020 At the beginning of March, I joined FRAC’s child nutrition team as a Bill Emerson Hunger Fellow. Two weeks later, schools across the country were closing, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and my team started working to ensure students and their families had access to meals during this unprecedented time. Schools and […]
August 17, 2020 FRAC and our network of anti-hunger partners are working tirelessly to ensure that no one goes hungry during this pandemic. We’re connecting growing numbers of food-insecure families to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Pandemic-Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) program, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and other […]
August 4, 2020 FRAC’s Hunger Doesn’t Take a Vacation: Summer Nutrition Status Report released this week finds that 2.8 million children received a lunch through the Summer Nutrition Programs in July 2019, a decrease of 77,000 children from July 2018. The Summer Nutrition Programs provided lunch to only one child for every seven children who […]