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 […]
According to FRAC’s Summer Nutrition Reports, participation in Summer Nutrition Programs is declining. FRAC has developed a communications toolkit to help you spread the word about the benefits of summer nutrition programs, effective strategies for increasing participation, and program recommendations for COVID-19. The toolkit includes the report, as well as the national news release, a model […]
Media Contact: Jordan Baker jbaker@frac.org 202-640-1118 Statement attributed to Luis Guardia, president, Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) WASHINGTON, July 27, 2020 — Senate Majority Leader McConnell’s proposed COVID-19 response omits Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit boosts and falls woefully short of the investments needed to address food and economic hardship and jump-start economic […]