“I don’t know under what world our colleagues think these cuts are acceptable, but tightening our belts around the waists of children… is not how we should be balancing our debt and deficit”
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This Sunday is Mother’s Day, and it’s not too late to send a No Kid Hungry e-card to honor a special mom in your life. When you do, you’ll help bring us one step closer to ending childhood hunger, an issue that is close to my heart.
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Healthy kids are better learners. Seems like common sense, right?
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Team No Kid Hungry has a major victory to share and celebrate.
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Every year, communities across the country come together during the first week of April to celebrate National Public Health Week and bring the importance of public health into focus.
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A recently-released budget proposal in the House of Representatives – often referred to as the Ryan budget - would be devastating to SNAP. The proposal would lead to up to $125 billion in cuts to the program and would lead to millions of families and children losing access to the program entirely.
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When the sequester – the term used to describe sweeping across-the-board funding cuts to federal programs - went into effect on March 1, it included devastating funding cuts to WIC, the highly effective nutrition program that provides crucial support to our nations women and children. As...
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Eating breakfast can change a child’s life. That’s why the No Kid Hungry campaign is focused on making sure more kids start the school day with school breakfast.
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This week hunger and poverty take the national spotlight with the release of A Place at the Table, a new documentary film from Participant Media, producers of other award-winning films like Food, Inc. and Waiting for "Superman."
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In the last two years, our country has faced a lot of cliffhanger endings to our debt and deficit issues. We've seen debt ceilings and fiscal cliffs. Government shutdowns and forced furloughs. None have posed a threat to low-income children and families like what we are facing this week.
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Neither my family nor I were ever on food stamps, now known as SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) but there were times where we should have been.
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The Western Conference, led by Chris Paul, won the All-Star Game and earned $350k for Boys & Girls Clubs of America and No Kid Hungry.
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On Saturday, February 16th, the Western Conference will take on the Eastern Conference for an exciting night of competition and charity during NBA All-Star Weekend. NBA Cares and State Farm have made a donation of $500,000 as part of the event to go to non-profits chosen by the two team captains,...
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Though I live in a thriving area in Montgomery County, Maryland, too often our successes overshadow the ongoing struggles of many of our neighbors. As the economy continues to slowly recover, many are relying on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP-formerly known as food stamps) to...
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"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about."
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