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In the United States, domestic hunger has been surveyed annually by the United States Department of Agriculture, or USDA, since 1995. For 30 years, the USDA's Economic Research Service has measured the level of food insecurity among U.S. households. On September 20, 2025, the USDA announced tha...
The U.S. School Breakfast Program and National School Lunch Program are the largest child nutrition programs in America, providing nutritious meals to some 30 million children.1 The 2010 Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act helped improve the nutritional quality of school breakfast and...
A recent report by Dr. Claudia Parvanta, reviews the implications of the current U.S. Administration's May 2025 "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) report for children's diets and nutritional education in the U.S. Responding to a request from the Social Marketing Quarterly editorial team, the auth...
About 13.5% of U.S. households or nearly 18 million families experienced food insecurity in 2023. Food insecurity manifests as a person's uncertainty of accessing sufficient and nutritious food. It is increasingly recognized as a series risk factor for mental health. A recent cross-sectio...
Hunger Notes joins with other sponsors in convening an expert discussion on July 17, 2025 about the role of American foreign aid in global health, looking ahead 5+ years. The Consortium of Universities for Global Health, the Partnership for Quality Medical Donations, the World Hunger Education S...
Until early 2025, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) showcased a memorial wall in the lobby of its Washington, D.C. headquarters, in the Ronald Reagan Building. The Trump Administration had it torn down and removed on April 30, 2025 in the process of removing USAID both from the...
World Hunger Education Service (the nonprofit overseeing this Hunger Notes site), joins with Fordham University, HIAS, Lipscomb University, and George Washington University's Milken Institute School of Public Health in organizing and convening a virtual (online) roundtable of expert...
Lisa Palmer's book, Hot, Hungry Planet, The Fight to Stop a Global Food Crisis in the Face of Climate Change, presents seven case studies of individuals working in different continents in the race against hunger, noting that "with a growing population, the demand for rice and other cereals ...
The book, “We Fed An Island - One Meal at a Time” by Chef Jose Andres (2018, Harper Collins Publisher) describes how the NGO, World Central Kitchen (WCK), reacted to the 2017 Hurricane Maria after it hit Puerto Rico, knocking out power and destroying homes. Several days after the hurricane, Chef...
A prayer vigil for foreign aid was held March 11, among some 50 Christians, at the Capitol Hill Presbyterian...
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