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Food Insecurity and Education
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This study explores the social aspects and pedagogical potential of a school-based healthy nutrition intervention in disadvantaged areas of a high-income country currently undergoing a severe economic crisis.
Addressing Food Insecurity in School-Based Settings: Keeping Youth Fed as Cost Rise
As Americans continue to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic ramifications, inflation has introduced additional financial stress, particularly for low-income and communities of color. Inflation has caused prices of items in the United States (U.S.) to rise to record-breaking levels, placing families already struggling financially in an even more precarious situation. This policy brief discusses initiatives and federal programs addressing youth food insecurity in school-based settings and recommends how to leverage these efforts to best address this challenge beyond the current period of inflation.
5 States Addressing Child Hunger and Food Insecurity With Free School Meals For All
In today’s public school environment, prioritizing school meal access is more important than ever. To create the conditions for children, teachers, and families to succeed, all students must be well-nourished at school. However, various barriers to participation currently lead to student hunger, meal debt for families, and costly administrative burdens for schools. The effects of hunger on health, well-being, and learning can follow children for the rest of their lives and make them less competitive in the global workforce. Offering no-cost meals to all students is an increasingly popular solution across the states, with benefits for students, families, and school districts.
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Food Insecurity and Health: Practices and Policies to Address Food Insecurity Among Children
This commentary will briefly describe the prevalence of and risk factors for food insecurity among children, the consequences of food insecurity for children, federal nutrition programs that improve household food security and child health, and actions pediatricians can take in their practice and through advocacy to meaningfully address food insecurity among children.
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Evidence-Based Strategies to End Childhood Food Insecurity and Hunger in Vermont
Food insecurity is a persistent problem threatening the well-being of many Vermont children and youth. Although the share of households that struggle with food insecurity nationally has decreased, 12.5 percent of US households (40 million households) experienced food insecurity in 2017, higher than before the Great Recession. Despite economic gains and an expanded Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), one in eight Vermont households still struggles with food insecurity, and 19,000 children live in food-insecure households.
Publications
How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America - by Priya Fielding -Singh
Food Insecurity in Families With Children: Integrating Research, Practice, and Policy- by Barbara Fiese and Anna Johnson
Food Justice - by Robert Gattlieb and Anupama Joshi
The Urban Food Revolution: Changing the Way We Feed Cities - by Peter Ladner
Freedom From Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food - by George Kent
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