Arkansas to Help Combat Childhood Summer Hunger with Summer EBT Program
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.
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.
Today we are celebrating the restoration of benefits for Marshallese Arkansans!
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.
Overall, we’re relieved to see that some key provisions will make life measurably better for Arkansas’s children.
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.
Arkansas is one of only nine states that have the most restrictive asset limit possible under federal law.
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...
Kasey Porchia comes from a family of educators. Her mother, father, and aunts were teachers, coaches, and paraprofessionals who had a profound effect on why she chose education as her profession. They instilled in her a strong work ethic and...