United States

USDA Improving nutrition standards for school meals

by Laura Reilly Washington Post February 9, 2023

The Washington Post recently reported that the USDA has announced new, more stringent, national nutrition standards for its school feeding program. This program reaches 30 million students at 100,000 schools nationwide. The new standar...

U.S White House Conference – $8 Billion toward a National Strategy for Hunger, Nutrition, and Health

by Sarah Jayawardene https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/White-House-National-Strategy-on-Hunger-Nutrition-and-Health-FINAL.pdf October 13, 2022

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USDA to Provide $2b in Food Aid to Combat Growing Food Insecurity Across US

by Sarah Jayawardene and Ian MacNairn September 20, 2022

The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to provide $2 billion in food...

Task Force Informs White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health

by Sarah Jayawardene September 10, 2022

On September 28th, 2022, the Biden administration will hold the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. This wil...

Furniture Maker Creates Wooden Bowls for Donations to Help Hunger Causes

by WHES Staff ABC Nightly News January 26, 2022

This video was featured on January 25, 2021 ABC Nightly News about Mike Mittelman, a furniture maker, who created wooden bowls for those who donated to hunger causes....

From 2005 to 2019, working-age veterans more likely to live in food-insecure households than similar nonveterans

by USDA ERS USDA ERS May 27, 2021

Working-age veterans were 7.4 percent more likely to live in a food-insecure household than similar working-age nonveterans from 2005 to 2019, according to research by the USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS). ERS economists used food security data ...

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  • For the past 50 years, since its founding in 1976, the mission of World Hunger Education Service is to undertake programs, including Hunger Notes, that
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