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Fighting Hunger in America
 
     
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Legislation, alerts, news, lobby tips and more.
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What's New
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December 3, 2008 - Food Stamp Participation in September 2008 Tops 31.5 Million
One Out of Ten Americans Receiving Benefit; Growth Underscores Need for Congressional Action
Click here for the FRAC press release on September's SNAP numbers.
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December 3, 2008 - NEW: 2006 SNAP/Food Stamp Participation Rates State-by-State
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November 25, 2008 - In Nearly Half of the States, More Than One in Ten Residents Are On Food Stamps
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November 24, 2008 - Four Actions to Take in this Holiday Season to End Hunger in America
Congress is on recess until December 8th, but more layoffs and pay cuts are happening every day, and hunger is growing every day. Click here for four ways that you can act over the next few days to initiate meaningful solutions to eliminate hunger in our communities.
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President-Elect Wants Your "Vision for America"
The Office of President-Elect Obama has created a web site, www.change.gov, with a place for all of us to e-mail our "vision for what America can be [and] where President-Elect Obama should lead this country." Please go to www.change.gov/page/s/yourvision and send the President-Elect the message below, or an equivalent message about ending hunger and poverty in the U.S. (and it is important that you also forward this e-mail to your networks so they can do the same and we can get the biggest possible response):
Congratulations on your election. My vision is a hunger-free America. I deeply appreciate your commitment to ending childhood hunger by 2015 and to cutting poverty in half. Please put the nation on a path to do that by: including a food stamp/SNAP boost as soon as possible in an economic stimulus package that addresses this and other critical human needs; investing added money in improving the child nutrition programs when they are reauthorized next year; and further improving food stamps/SNAP, child nutrition programs, the EITC and Child Tax Credit, the minimum wage and other essential supports so that the nation will achieve our mutual goals of eliminating hunger and dramatically reducing poverty.
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November 19, 2008 - FRAC Calls on President-Elect Obama and Congress to Make Ending Hunger a Priority
New Data Find that 36.2 Million Americans Struggle to Obtain Food; Prevalence of Hunger Negatively Impacting Young Children and the Nation’s Well-Being
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November 17, 2008 - More than 36.2 Million Americans Struggled Against Hunger in 2007; Number in Worst-Off Households Rose 40 Percent from 2000 to 2007
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SNAP Participation Tops 29 Million in August 2008 - Vital to Get SNAP/Food Stamp Benefits to One in Three Eligible People Now Missed and to Boost the Purchasing Power of Benefits for All Participants and Local Economies
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November 4, 2008 - LOOKING AHEAD
FRAC congratulates President-elect Barack Obama, Vice-President-elect Joe Biden, and the newly elected and returning members of Congress, state governors, state legislators, mayors and other public officials. We look forward to working with them all to tackle hunger and poverty in our nation, particularly in this time of acute and growing need.
Americans overwhelmingly agree that ending hunger should be a top priority for the nation. Please check back frequently on our website, www.frac.org and look for our alerts and analyses on economic stimulus legislation, on early Administration and Congressional initiatives next year, and on FRAC's priorities to boost the nation's investment in the fight against hunger and poverty.
Below are links to three of the documents that underscore the great opportunities ahead.
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October 29, 2008 - New Online - SNAP/Food Stamp Toolkit for Changing Times: Rebranding, Program Improvements and Economic Hardship
This toolkit can help advocates conduct outreach in 2008 and 2009 to increase participation in the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), the new national name of the Food Stamp Program.
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October 22, 2008 - Updated FRAC Facts on the Impact of Rising Food Costs and the Thrifty Food Plan (pdf) highlights the latest USDA numbers showing the cost of the thrifty food plan rose by 10.3 percent from September 2007 to September 2008.
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October 16, 2008 - Food costs rose by 7.6 percent from September 2007 to September 2008, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Click here for FRAC's updated fact sheet on rising food costs (pdf) and the impact on low-income Americans.
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September 12, 2008 - New Online: Statement of the Food Research and Action Center on the 2009 Reauthorization of the Child Nutrition and WIC Programs (CNR) (pdf), delivered at the final USDA CNR Listening Session, Chicago, Illinois, 9/10/08.
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August 26, 2008 - Number of Americans Living in Poverty Increased in 2007, Federal Poverty Numbers Show
12.5 percent of Americans – 37.3 million people – lived in poverty in 2007, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released today. This is an increase in the number of poor people from 2006, when 36.5 million Americans lived in poverty.
Statement by FRAC President Jim Weill (pdf) on the Census Bureau's numbers released today calls for a food stamp boost in the second stimulus package to ease struggle of families living in poverty.
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July 7, 2008 - USDA issues updated income guidelines and reimbursement rates for child nutrition programs (school meals, afterschool and summer food programs, day care nutrition programs). The rates are in effect July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009. Follow these links for the Federal Register notices on:
(Documents are in PDF format.)
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