Food and Nutrition

Background
Background on Food and Nutrition

Latest News
CBPP: Statement by Stacy Dean, Director of Food Assistance Policy, On the New USDA Report on Hunger (11/17/08)
HNR: Without a Doubt, Farm Bill Becomes Law (7/2/08)
HNR: Farm Bill Becomes Law With a Glitch (5/23/08)
HNR: Vote on Passage of the Farm Bill Expected This Week (5/12/08)
HNR: Last Chance for Farm Bill (3/21/08)

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Policy Analyses and Research

FRAC: Ending Childhood Hunger by 2015: The Essential Strategies for Achieving the President's Goal (7/1/09)
Children's HealthWatch: Food Insecurity Rates Rise Steeply with Recession (6/18/09)
FRAC: State of the States: 2008 - FRAC's Profile of Food & Nutrition Programs Across the Nation (November 2008)
Partnership for America's Economic Success: Reading, Writing and Hungry: the Consequences of Food Insecurity on Children and on our Nation's Economic Success (November 2008)
NAHO: A Blueprint to End Hunger 2008 (10/16/08)
FRAC: Hunger Doesn't Take a Vacation: Summer Nutrition Status Report 2008 (7/30/08)

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Government Resources

Status and text of H.R. 3010 the Fiscal 2006 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Act (signed into law 12/30/05)
Status and text of H.R. 4241 "Deficit Reduction Act" (The budget reconciliation bill approved by the House 11/18/05)
Bipartisan Letter to Senate Agriculture Committee Asking Not to Cut Food Stamps (9/7/05)
Letter from 68 House Members to Chairman Goodlatte in Support of Food Stamp Program (7/28/05)
Senate Appropriations Committee: S. Rept. 109-92 Agriculture Appropriations Bill for FY 2006 (6/27/05)

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