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The Community Foodbank of New Jersey says everyone can do something to help address hunger in the Garden State

Coughlin, Lampitt & Jasey Bill to Establish the “Working Class Families Anti-Hunger Act” Advances   (TRENTON) – Designed to allow more working-class students to be eligible for the free breakfast and lunch option and create a pathway to a universal school meals program, a bill requiring free school breakfasts and lunches to be provided for[...]

For the second year in a row, fewer New Jersey children received afterschool suppers in 2020 and questions remain as to why.

Hunger Free New Jersey says there are still plenty of eligible residents who are not receiving SNAP benefits.

Too many kids go hungry: Make SNAP benefit increase permanent | Editorial Updated Mar 15, 2021; There are many aspects to American Rescue Act, the massive relief bill signed by President Biden, that will be debated until the last gong of eternity. But count this among the reasons he had to go big: One year into the pandemic, food insecurity has soared, with 42 million Americans expected to experience it in 2021, according to Feeding America, the non-profit colossus. That includes 13 million ch...

NJ schools skipping mandate to serve breakfast, group says By the start of the 2019 academic year, 661 New Jersey schools with a high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals were required by state law to provide breakfast daily to their students once the school day began. But new findings from a state-by-state report suggest many New Jersey schools did not abide by that mandate. Get our free mobile app According to a report released by the Food Research & Action Center, ...

Free summer meals soar in NJ during COVID — will it continue? In a summer featuring a global pandemic, more than 9 million free meals were handed out by schools and community organizations to Garden State children who may have otherwise struggled to get their hands on nutritious food — during July 2020 alone. According to a report released Thursday by Hunger Free New Jersey, the number of meals distributed in summer 2020 nearly tripled 2019s numbers, and the number of children reached incre...

Credit: USDAgov via Creative Commons CC-PDM-1.0 In order to reach more hungry families, some summer-meal programs are allowing parents to pick up food rather than requiring kids to eat it on site. New Jersey schools and community organizations fed twice the number of children last summer than the year before, providing meals to many who may have gone hungry otherwise due to the pandemic’s effect on families and on typical summer children’s programs. Recognizing those great needs, more commu...

Decline in NJ school meal service during early months of the pandemic Many New Jersey school districts have been offering free meals to all families during the pandemic. And the U.S. Department of Agriculture has relaxed rules to make it easier for schools to feed children during remote learning, including allowing districts to deliver meals directly to homes, provide meals at pickup or drive-through locations and deliver meals along bus routes.  Nevertheless, the number of free and low-cost s...

Plenty of New Jersey school districts have been offering free meals to families during the coronavirus pandemic, but a new report suggests many kids arent actually getting their hands on this food. According to data from the Food Research & Action Center, the number of free and low-cost school lunches served to New Jersey children, as well as the number of children served, plummeted 51% from April 2019 to April 2020. Breakfast participation dropped 36% during that time frame. "We definitely exp...