WASHINGTON — Thousands more children would eat lunches and dinners at school and all school food would become more nutritious under a bill Presi...
The measure will make more nutritious foods more accessible throughout school campuses and reduce less nutritious options. The bill's passage comes not a moment too soon.
Making school meals universally available and free for every child would not only offer a great moral good but would also offer a very smart, economical and efficient investment.
"It's this opportunity or we lose it," said Representative George Miller, a California Democrat and sponsor of the Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act...
At the end of September, Congress adjourned in advance of the midterm elections without voting on one of the most important, popular, and bipartisan b...
We all bear the consequences if these children don't eat.
Poor kids will not be able to learn as well or as easily as they could if they were not feeling the pangs of hunger and stress and illness that come with poverty. Poverty is not a partisan issue, but a moral one.
In the middle of National Hispanic Heritage Month, I am soberly reminded that child hunger is even more prevalent among Latino households -- one in three Latino children is food insecure.
For low-income families who struggle to overcome hunger, back-to-school season brings an end to the strain of putting additional meals on the table when the free and reduced-price school breakfasts and lunches are unavailable.
While the improvements to the quality of foods provided by our child nutrition programs is a strong step forward, there are two shortfalls to the legislation that the House should consider before taking up the Senate bill.
It is the end of the hot months of summer and some Americans and Washingtonians, particularly, are in their last days of vacation. In political Washin...
Politics should be put aside to quickly bring the Child Nutrition Reauthorization to the House and Senate floors. To not would be to put the health of our children at risk.
Given school cafeteria menus, it's no wonder that our nation's children are developing poor eating habits. As places of learning, schools have a responsibility to also educate on nutrition.
Can you show the Mom-in-Chief how motivated we are to pass the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act?
Michelle Obama started her government-wide "Let's Move" program to improve children's health and nutrition, but Blanche Lincoln's the author of the Senate child nutrition bill. And Lincoln is no Michelle Obama.
While debate continues over the direction of health care reform, I encourage you to keep in mind the low-income men, women and families who regularly ...
Last week, I was on a phone call with more than one thousand Americans. My organization, Feeding America, hosted a virtual town hall meeting with Ra...
Kids have gotten bigger recently. In fact, according to the CDC, obesity rates have tripled in the past 30 years with nearly 20 percent of children aged 6-11 and 18 percent for those aged 12-19.
Parents have had enough. They know their kids need nutritious, fresh ingredients that encourage healthy growth and fuel their minds instead of foods that fuel an obesity epidemic amongst kids.
