Craig Gundersen, Ph.D., the creator of Feeding America’s Map the Meal Gap and a professor at Baylor University, is an expert on food insecurity and SNAP. He’s a well-known speaker and researcher on both topics, and has spent much of the last 30 years of his academic career helping to…
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Under the Trump administration’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” new funding for SNAP-Ed will be officially snuffed out by Sept. 30, causing food banks with related programs to rethink how they talk to clients about nutrition. As recently as 2022, the USDA had positioned the 33-year-old SNAP-Ed program as a key mechanism…
With proposed cuts to SNAP of $230 billion over the next ten years looming, the Food Research and Action Center yesterday lined up speakers who put forth several powerful arguments against the measure, highlighting its potential impact on children and the economy. The proposed cuts, which would be the largest…
WASHINGTON D.C. – At a time when Congress is contemplating cuts to SNAP benefits of up to 20%, a panel of food policy experts meeting last week found reasons to be hopeful that bipartisan collaboration could bolster other aspects of federal food assistance. The panel, speaking at the Consumer Federation…
As is the case when any new administration comes into office, changes to existing government programs can be expected. To those working in hunger relief, the future of the Farm Bill is of particular importance since it governs SNAP, the federal nutrition program that gets food to more than 42…
It’s fair to say that most food banks generally appreciate the Emergency Food Assistance Program. It’s the only federal nutrition program specifically geared toward food banks, providing them with a wide variety of fresh, frozen and canned foods. Most of the food is healthy, and all of it comes from…
It’s hard to overstate the impact that the USDA’s new summer feeding program will have on alleviating summer food insecurity. By making it much easier to get food, the program is expected to reach 21 million kids, a massive expansion from the three million kids who utilized summer feeding in…
By all accounts, a program that the USDA introduced in late 2021 to help local farmers grow nutritious food for underserved communities has worked out exceedingly well (Food Bank News first wrote about it here.) The Local Food Purchase Assistance program has resulted in nearly $700 million of funds going…
In just a couple of months, eligible families in 36 states will be able to use federal benefits loaded onto cards to purchase food for their kids during the summer. The program, known as Summer EBT (for electronic benefits transfer), is based on a similar program that emerged during the…