No Student Goes Hungry in New York
Governor Cuomo’s sweeping plan titled “No Student Goes Hungry” establishes New York as a leader in ensuring access to healthy school meals for students.
2018 Farm Bill
SNAP is a vital program for low-income New Yorkers, yet Congress wants to cut SNAP in the Farm Bill. Get the latest updates, action alerts and resources to help protect and defend SNAP.
SNAP Replacement Benefits
Due to recent storms resulting in power outages across New York, we want to remind SNAP recipients and community organizations working on SNAP about the process for requesting SNAP replacement benefits.
Get Ready for Summer
Free, healthy meals and snacks could be served to many more kids and teens where they play and learn during the summer months so they are better prepared when school starts.
Our School Breakfast Report
Read our 2018 findings on school breakfast participation, and learn how Breakfast After the Bell can help more low-income kids start the day ready to learn with a healthy breakfast.
SNAP Policy & Advocacy
Our newly developed page offers a wealth of information, including current issues we are working on, tools and resources for community-based organizations, and SNAP news.
Get Food Help
Find help applying for monthly SNAP benefits, and learn where farmers’ markets, food pantries, and free summer meals for kids may be located near you.
Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)
CACFP provides reimbursement and support to early care providers and afterschool enrichment programs that serve healthy meals and snacks to children and teens in their care. Many more could participate.
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House Republicans Are Still Fixated On Making It Harder For Poor People To Eat
The House Farm Bill would institute “huge changes” to SNAP, while the Senate version “is much more bipartisan in agreement and … doesn’t include significant changes to SNAP,” writes Julia Hudson-Richards, a food activist, and historian, in this op-ed. “According to...
read moreIf Congress Changes Food Stamp (SNAP) Requirements, Kids Will Go Hungry
This New York Times Opinion piece written by three professors who have studied child hunger for five years in North Carolina starting in 2012. In 2016, children in 3.1 million households experienced food insecurity at some point during the year. Whether temporary...
read moreLetting SNAP Participants Buy Dietary Supplements With Their Benefits Could Leave Them Hungry
In a new blog by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, they highlight why the Senate, as it considers the Agriculture Committee’s farm bill this week, should avoid a provision in the House-passed farm bill that would let SNAP participants use their benefits to...
read moreLegislative Action & Policy Alerts
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Our Statement on Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018-Senate Farm Bill
Statement on that passage of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, the Senate Farm Bill: Protects the Supplement Nutrition Assistance Program From Linda Bopp, Executive Director The U.S Senate passed by a vote of 86 to 11 the bipartisan Agriculture Improvement Act...
read moreOur Statement on H.R 2, the 2018 Farm Bill
Statement on the passage of H.R. 2, the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018 From Linda Bopp, Executive Director Yesterday, the House of Representatives narrowly passed the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018 (Farm Bill) (H.R. 2), by a vote of 213-211. The passage...
read moreHunger Solutions New York Statement on Senate Farm Bill
The Senate’s version of the 2018 farm bill was released June 8. Hunger Solutions New York applauds Senate Agriculture Chairman Roberts and Ranking Member Stabinow on the introduction of the Senate farm bill, “The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018,” and their...
read moreA Closer Look: Who Benefits From SNAP In New York
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the nation’s most important anti-hunger program as of December 2017; SNAP was helping 43 million low-income Americans to afford a nutritionally adequate diet. This fact sheet by the Center on Budget and Policy...
Most Working-Age SNAP Participants Work, But Often in Unstable Jobs
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has released a new set of materials around SNAP and Work. This new analysis finds that SNAP helps workers to both supplement low wages and supports them when they are between jobs. Read the Issue Brief Read the full Report...
SNAP Linked to Better Health and Lower Health Care Costs
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Plan (SNAP) is associated with better health and lower health care costs, according to a growing body of evidence that the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities summarize in a new paper and blog series. Food Insecurity – i.e.,...
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House Republicans Are Still Fixated On Making It Harder For Poor People To Eat
The House Farm Bill would institute “huge changes” to SNAP, while the Senate version “is much more bipartisan in agreement and … doesn’t include significant changes to SNAP,” writes Julia Hudson-Richards, a food activist, and historian, in this op-ed. “According to...
read moreIf Congress Changes Food Stamp (SNAP) Requirements, Kids Will Go Hungry
This New York Times Opinion piece written by three professors who have studied child hunger for five years in North Carolina starting in 2012. In 2016, children in 3.1 million households experienced food insecurity at some point during the year. Whether temporary...
read moreLetting SNAP Participants Buy Dietary Supplements With Their Benefits Could Leave Them Hungry
In a new blog by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, they highlight why the Senate, as it considers the Agriculture Committee’s farm bill this week, should avoid a provision in the House-passed farm bill that would let SNAP participants use their benefits to...
read moreResearch & Data
A Closer Look: Who Benefits From SNAP In New York
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the nation’s most important anti-hunger program as of December 2017; SNAP was helping 43 million low-income Americans to afford a nutritionally adequate diet. This fact sheet by the Center on Budget and Policy...
Most Working-Age SNAP Participants Work, But Often in Unstable Jobs
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has released a new set of materials around SNAP and Work. This new analysis finds that SNAP helps workers to both supplement low wages and supports them when they are between jobs. Read the Issue Brief Read the full Report...
SNAP Linked to Better Health and Lower Health Care Costs
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Plan (SNAP) is associated with better health and lower health care costs, according to a growing body of evidence that the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities summarize in a new paper and blog series. Food Insecurity – i.e.,...
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