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2011
FRAC: Nearly One in Four of Nation's Households with Children Report Inability to Afford Enough Food (8/11/11) CLASP: How Quickly We Forget (6/29/11) HNR: House Agriculture Appropriations: Some WIC Funding Restored, but Other Cuts to Nutrition and Housing Programs Stay (6/17/11) CBPP: Chairman Ryan's Baseless Attack on SNAP/Food Stamps (June 2011) HNR: Hundreds of Thousands of Small Children and Mothers Would Lose Food Aid if House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee Gets Its Way (5/31/11) HNR: The FY 2012 Budget: House Republicans Take Steps To Drown Government in a Bathtub; The President has Other Priorities (4/19/11) LA Times: New Cuts Detailed in Federal Budget Compromise (4/12/11)
2010
HNR: Child Nutrition Programs Reauthorized (12/22/10) FRAC: Press Release: New Polling Data Shows Overwhelming Support for Federal Efforts to End Hunger (12/7/10) CBPP: Food Stamps Helping Keep Hunger in Check Despite Recession (11/16/10) FRAC: One in Seven Americans Struggling Against Hunger (11/15/10) FRAC: FRAC Releases New Findings on US Hunger (11/9/10) HNR: Child Nutrition Renewal Pushed into Lame Duck Session; House Objects to Cutting Food Stamps to Pay for It (10/5/10) HNR: Senate Passes Child Nutrition Reauthorization Bill (8/11/10) HNR: Child Nutrition Legislation Advances in the House (7/26/10) HNR: 37 Senators and 153 Reps. Vote to Deny UI to 2 Million; And Those Who Vote No Endanger State Aid, Youth Jobs, and TANF Emergency Funds (7/2/10) Blog post by Melissa Boteach and Sophie Milam on Latinovations: As School Ends, Hunger Begins (6/15/10) FRAC Statement: House Releases CNR Plan (6/10/10) HNR: Action on Child Nutrition Reauthorization in the Senate (3/29/10) FRAC Focuses: Obesity and Poverty (March 2010) NYT: Living on Nothing but Food Stamps (1/2/10)
2009
HNR: Senate Completes Its Work on Agriculture Appropriations (8/12/09)
2008
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) HNR: Farm Bill Stalemate Continues (3/7/08)
2007
HNR: Senate Passes Farm Bill – Still a Ways to Go (12/21/07) HNR: Food Stamps and Emergency Food Gains Move Forward in Senate Farm Bill (10/29/07) HNR: Farm Bill Movement in the Senate (9/17/07) HNR: House Enacts Long-Overdue Food Stamp Improvements (8/3/07) HNR: Farm Bill: House Committee Sends Bill With Nutrition Improvements to House Floor (7/23/07) HNR: House Takes First Step to Reauthorize Food Stamp and Other Nutrition Programs (6/15/07) HNR: Nutrition Bill Introduced in the House (05/04/07)
2006
FRAC: Analysis of the Food Stamp Caseload Trends (August 2006) HNR: USDA Proposes Improvements to WIC Food Package (8/7/06) HNR: House Agriculture Appropriations Bill Approved in Full Committee (5/19/06) HNR: House Subcommittee Rejects President’s Plan to Terminate Food Packages for Poor Seniors, Children and Moms (5/05/06)
2005
HNR: House and Senate to Attempt Passing a Final Bill Cutting Aid to Poor (12/9/05) NYTimes: GOP Forces $50 Billion in Budget Cuts Through House (11/18/05) HNR: House Leadership Can't Dig Up Votes to Slash Medicaid, Child Support, Food Stamps, SSI, and Foster Care (11/11/05) WashPost: Food Stamp and Other Cuts on Table (11/3/05) HNR: House Committees Slash Medicaid, Child Support, SSI and Foster Care; Reduce Planned Increases for Child Care (10/28/05) HNR: Final Conference Agreement on WIC Spending Approved In House (10/28/05) WashPost: House GOP Leaders Postpone Vote on Reductions in Spending (10/20/05) WP: Senate Plan to Cut Food Stamps Dies (10/19/05) HNR: Low-Income Programs Threatened with Across-the-Board Cuts (10/14/05) HNR: House Presses for Even Larger Cuts to Low-Income Services (10/14/05) HNR: Conservatives Continue to Press for Cuts to Low-Income Services and New Tax Breaks for Wealthy (9/30/05) HNR: Hurricane Victims Needing Help Encounter Red Tape, Courtesy of White House, Congress (9/30/05) HNR: Congress Approves Stop-Gap Measure to Keep Government Running (9/30/05) HNR: Reconciliation Delayed: Congress Puts Off Cuts to Food Stamps and Medicaid (9/16/05) HNR: Washington Focuses on Aiding Gulf Coast Victims (9/16/05) NYTimes Editorial: Congress Finesses the Storm (9/14/05) Arkansas Democrat Gazette Op-Ed: Food Stamps Threatened (8/21/05) NYT Op-Ed: Agriculture Cuts Should Not Come Out Of Food Stamps (8/17/05) WP: Hungry Kids, Greedy Farm Lobby (7/25/05) HNR: Senate Committee Agrees to Labor-HHS-Education Spending Bill (7/22/05) WP Op-Ed: In Defense of Success: Government Really Can Lessen Poverty (7/19/05) HNR: Bill Funding Nutrition Programs Advances in the Senate (7/1/05) HNR: House Approves Agriculture Spending Bill (6/17/05) FRAC: Hunger Awareness Day, June 7 (press release 5/24/05) HNR: Reconciliation Instructions Put Human Needs Programs at Risk (5/20/05) NY Times: Under New Medicare Drug Plan, Food Stamps May Be Reduced (5/8/05) HNR: Congress Approves a Final Budget Resolution (4/29/05) WP: GOP Leaders Reach Budget Deal (4/28/05) WP Editorial: Worse Than No Budget (4/28/05) HNR: Budget Conference Committee to Contemplate Deep Cuts to Human Needs Programs (4/15/05) HNR: FY 2006 Budget Resolutions Clear House, Senate Floor (4/1/05) AP: Congress Mulls Cutting Food Aid to Poor (3/12/05) HNR: House and Senate Committees Pass Budget Resolutions for FY 2006 (3/11/05) Times and Democrat (SC): DSS Directors Weigh in Food Stamp Eligibility Rules in Bush Budget (2/28/05) HNR: Deep Cuts in the President's Budget; Committees Ready to Act (2/25/05) Boston Globe Op-Ed: Hungry for Data (1/24/05)
2004
HNR: Congress Passes Massive Spending Bill (11/24/04) NYTimes: Spending Bill Makes a Winner of Mars Program; But Many Losers Elsewhere (11/23/04) NYTimes Op-Ed: Shhh, Don't Say Poverty (11/22/04) WP: Fewer Poor Students Eat Free Breakfast in Region (11/18/04) HNR: Congress Unlikely to Complete Appropriations Before Adjournment (9/17/04) HNR: Congress Starts Work on Appropriations (7/2/04) HNR: School Lunch and Other Child Nutrition Programs Reauthorized (7/2/04) WP: Food Prices Surge (5/2/04) NY Times: Agencies Say Hunger on Rise Outside Cities Across Region (3/23/04) WA: Food Insecurity in Young People Affects Health, Education (3/21/04) Physician Editorial: Food Insecurity in the United States: Its Effect on Our Patients (3/1/04) Almost Half of Appalachian Families With Children In Head Start Experience Food Insecurity (3/4/04)
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