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Advocates in Vermont are promising to keep the pressure on policymakers, with a goal of sharply reducing and eventually ending hunger in the communities they serve. The issue came into sharp focus at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it remains a problem for many people. Chereyl Raffuse, who was getting food Thursday from the Upper Valley Haven in…

Advocates are pushing to reduce and end hunger in Vermont communities.

When the coronavirus pandemic hit and schools shut down, in-person learning wasn’t the only thing children were missing out on. Many families in Massachusetts and across the nation relied on school breakfasts and lunches to keep their kids from going hungry. “The pandemic occurred abruptly, we had to pivot abruptly into numerous different feeding systems based on USDA waivers,”...

The Biden administration is expanding a program to feed up to 34 million schoolchildren during the summer months

While the number of Americans going hungry and unable to pay their bills fell last month, new data shows that millions are still struggling. 

Congress approved major food assistance initiatives in the latest Covid-19 relief package signed Thursday by President Biden, including extending SNAP benefits.

President Joe Biden signed an executive order that will help restaurants partner to provide food assistance.

CNBC readers offer their hometown pandemic heroes. From vaccine distribution to food insecurity, these local leaders met the crisis with courage and compassion.

Lawmakers agreed to a $900 billion coronavirus relief package on Sunday, which includes $13 billion in funding to support food assistance programs.

With over 1 in 10 Americans going without enough to eat, the $13 billion lawmakers initially allocated for food assistance can’t come soon enough. 

As the coronavirus pandemic stretches on, more people than ever are going hungry — but across the country, volunteers are stepping up to help. Before the pandemic, more than 35 million people in the U.S. struggled with hunger, according to Feeding America. But now, with millions of Americans unemployed and a second relief check uncertain, the non-profit estimates that more than 50 million people...

Feeding America estimates that 17 million children could go without enough to eat this year, and advocates say that hunger could get worse during winter.

With negotiations for a new legislative relief package coming down to the wire, it may be worth considering how to stretch your budget without federal help.

4 in 10 Americans say the Covid-19 pandemic was the first time they experiencedfood insecurity, and a majority struggled to get the help they needed.

As jobs vanish, incomes drop and food prices rise, more Americans are going to bed hungry — and advocates warn that without intervention from Congress, those numbers could rise to a level unseen in modern times.

Millions of people have been pushed into hunger by the new coronavirus, said the United Nations World Food Program.

While the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, the head of the United Nations food agency warned on Tuesday that a looming “hunger pandemic” will bring “the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II.”

A new proposal in Vermont would do away with the concept of lunch money. Instead, if a newly-filed bill becomes law, public schools would provide meals to each and every student, regardless of their ability to pay—making Vermont the first state in the country to do so statewide, according to advocates. “This is an equity issue,” said Anore Horton,...

A new proposal in Vermont would allow public schools to provide meals to every student, regardless of their ability to pay.

Schools in two separate Vermont school districts said this week they received surprise gifts from community members to pay off students’ school lunch debts. One of those donors, who spoke to NECN under the condition the news station would not use her name or image, is known as the “school lunch fairy” in the cafeteria of the Chamberlin School in…