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We’ve already briefly touched on how children are impacted greatly by food insecurity—you could populate a city larger than New York with all of America’s food-insecure children—but who are the communities most impacted by food insecurity? Well, the answer is not so simple.
To inform these opportunities, this report offers the following strategies to eliminate food insecurity and hunger in the United States by anchoring solutions in the lived experiences of...
Policy Solutions to End Hunger in America by 2030. Read the full policy recommendations for the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health.
In 2020, about 55% of food-insecure households were in at least one of the three largest federal nutrition assistance programs: SNAP, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and the National School Lunch Program (NSLP).
Hunger affects millions of people in America. Learn about the root causes of food insecurity and hunger in America and it's impacts.
Food Provision and Access | The solutions in this section directly provide food to families (e.g. food pantries, school lunch) or provide benefits that can be used to purchase food (e.g. SNAP, WIC).
We reviewed 31 studies with a wide range of reported rates of food insecurity, but could not determine a reliable national estimate for college students. We also looked at how 14 colleges addressed food insecurity among their students.
This policy brief outlines the public policy solutions necessary to make true and lasting change regarding food insecurity and diet-related health through both specific programmatic changes and larger-scale philosophical shifts.
Emphasizing equity to ensure our efforts serve all populations to promote access, availability, and affordability to foods and beverages, and address the connection between food insecurity and diet-related chronic diseases.
Food insecurity is linked to negative health outcomes in children and adults, and it may cause children to have trouble in school. Giving more people benefits through nutrition assistance programs, increasing benefit amounts, and addressing unemployment may help reduce food insecurity and hunger.