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Bloomberg Law: Hunger ‘Cliff’ Looms as Pandemic School-Lunch Aid Is Running Out

Jun 6, 2022

Schools and child-feeding sites are bracing for rising costs and supply disruptions as federal meal subsidies run out in weeks. The food assistance, in the form of Agriculture Department waivers authorized since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, allows schools and...

Vox: A program that helps millions of hungry kids is about to expire

Jun 1, 2022

One of the most fundamental and intuitive facts about learning is that it’s hard to focus, or really do much of anything, if you’re hungry. There’s a hierarchy of needs, and stomachs come out on top. Yet youth advocates are staring down a chilling deadline. June 30 is...

The Urban School Food Alliance Appalled at Congress for School Nutrition Omnibus Failure

Mar 9, 2022

The Urban School Food Alliance shares in the frustration and disappointment with other advocacy groups that Congress neglected, through the omnibus, to include the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to extend the waivers needed to help children and families as...