3/7/13: 50 million Americans face hunger each year. According to USDA data, 15 percent of households were "food insecure" at least some time during the year, including nearly six percent with "very low food security—meaning that the food intake of one or more household members was reduced and their eating patterns were disrupted at times during the year because the household lacked money and other resources for food."
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Hunger Legislation
- HR 208 Anti-hunger Empowerment Act: to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to provide greater access to the supplemental nutrition assistance program by reducing duplicative and burdensome administrative requirements.
- S 427 Sensible School Lunch Act: to provide flexibility to school food authorities in meeting certain nutritional requirements for the school lunch and breakfast programs,
- HR 197 Food Assistance to Improve Reintegration Act: to amend the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to repeal the denial of food stamp eligibility of ex-offenders.
- HR 473 Safe Food for Seniors Act: to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act with respect to the qualification of the director of food services of a Medicare skilled nursing facility or a Medicaid nursing facility.
- HRes 90 House Resolution expressing that the Committee on Agriculture should not propose any reduction in the availability or amount of benefits provided under the supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) in effect under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, and that the House of Representatives should reject any proposed legislation that includes any provisions that reduce the availability or amount of benefits provided under SNAP.
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