Arkansas is one of 35 states that agreed to participate in a new federal program this year designed to combat childhood hunger. Summer EBT (electronic benefits transfer) is designed to reach low-income families. Those children who receive SNAP or...
Kids who experience hunger often are more likely to face long-term health consequences, like iron deficiency, anemia, asthma, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease.
In Arkansas, WIC serves nearly 61,000 low-income, food insecure women, babies, and children under four years old.
Congress has made a mess by failing to review and update the Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) since they last did in 2010.
Access to high quality, healthy foods is a basic human right that helps people develop fully and reach their full potential.
No child should go hungry no matter where they live, what they look like, or how much their parents earn. Everyone deserves to have access to nutritious food to ensure they can achieve their full potential.
When immigrant families succeed, we all succeed.
The lack of disaggregated data is especially troubling for Arkansas as, according to research from the Census Bureau, Arkansas has the highest undercount in the 2020 Census of any state at 5%.
Also known as Emancipation Day or Black Independence Day, Juneteenth celebrates the day, June 19, 1865, that Black enslaved people in Texas learned that they had been declared free more than two years prior, when the Emancipation Proclamation...
All children and families, regardless of race, ethnicity, or where they live, deserve access to high-quality affordable foods. Unfortunately, when the COVID-19 pandemic started, families in poverty and on the edge of poverty were hit hardest by hunger. It...