End Childhood Hunger/End Child Hunger advocates for greater access to existing federal programs such as school breakfast, school lunch, after-school snacks, after-school dinners, summer meals, and more nutrition education. We utilize social media to support public and private like-minded organizations, educate, promote awareness, fight for change and for an end to childhood hunger.-
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SNAP/Food Stamp Program Imperative To Alleviating U.S. Hunger
Great information from our friends at FRAC, the Food Research and Action Center: USDA researchers, using Current Population Survey data to examine SNAP’s effect on poverty from 2000 to 2009, found that the prevalence of poverty declined an average of 4.4 percent due to SNAP/Food Stamp benefits, with the average decline in the depth and severity of poverty at 10.3 and 13.2 percent, respectively. SNAP/Food Stamps reduced the depth of child poverty by an average of 15.5 percent, and child poverty severity by an average of 21.3 percent.
When SNAP/Food Stamp benefits were increased through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009, (overview & link to final text of the bill) the SNAP/Food Stamp anti-poverty effect peaked. SNAP/Food Stamps served 44.7 million Americans in an average month in 2011. “Our analysis shows that SNAP significantly improves the welfare of low-income households,” note the researchers. Follow this link to the report, titled “Alleviating Poverty in the United States: The Critical Role of SNAP Benefits.”
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Children Living in High-Poverty Communities > 25% Over Last Decade
Citing recent findings by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Philanthropy News Digest reports that nearly eight million children in America live in areas of high poverty — about 1.6 million more since 2000.
Based in part on data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS), the latest Kids Count Data Snapshot found that 11% of the nation’s children are growing up in areas where at least 30% of residents live below the federal poverty level — about $22,000 per year for a family of four. For more details, a link to the Annie E. Casey Foundation Press Release is here.
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Dinner At School: More Public Schools Dish Up 3 Meals A Day
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Too often it is after the fact that teachers discover their students are worrying less about math and and reading and more about where the next meal comes from.
The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, signed into law by President Barack Obama in December 2010, provides federal funds for the after-school dinner program in areas where at least half the students qualify for free or reduced price lunches.
Check out the full story on the impact of after-school “dinner” in the Huffington Post story here.
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Long Lines For Free School Meals, Thanks to The Economy
The number of students receiving free or reduced-price school lunches rose to 21 million last school year, up from 18 million in 2006-07. That number represents a 17 percent increase, according to an analysis by The New York Times of data from the Department of Agriculture, which administers the meals program. Eleven states, including Florida, Nevada, New Jersey and Tennessee, had four-year increases of 25 percent or more. This represents huge shifts in a vast program that has long been characterized by incremental growth.
Students in families with incomes up to 130 percent of the poverty level — or $29,055 for a family of four — are eligible for free school meals. Children in a four-member household with income up to $41,348 qualify for a subsidized lunch priced at 40 cents.
All 50 states have shown increases, according to Agriculture Department data. In Florida, which has 2.6 million public school students, an additional 265,000 students have become eligible for subsidies since 2007, with increases in virtually every district.
Click the “analysis” link above, or here, to read more of the Times story. For general information on the National School Lunch Program, click here.
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People Are Starving, But There Is Enough Food To Go Around
Another amazing infographic, this time provided by the good folks at Fast Company, and reported by Morgan Clendadinel.
One in seven people in the world is malnourished. But the research presented here makes a strong case that the solution isn’t producing more food – We already produce too much. It’s just not going to the right places. The full monty runs about two feet long, so please click on the infographic link above to get to the data. It’s worth a click!
Just What Is “Food Insecurity,” Anyway?
Major props to the Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger for tweeting about it, and the amazing folks at Good for producing this “Empty Pantry” infographic that lays out in chilling detail the scary truth about the concept of “food insecurity.” To get the full- size version, go here or click on the infographic itself. And make sure to check out the entire Good web site via the link, above.
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World Food Programme Hunger Map
This comes to us via a great post on Google+ by Valeria Maltoni. It’s a world hunger overview infographic, just produced by the World Food Programme. Informative, and sobering. The link to the full-size map is here.
