Colorado Families With School-aged Students to Again Receive Pandemic-EBT Food Benefits
Colorado Families With School-aged Students to Again Receive Pandemic-EBT Food Benefits
Colorado P-EBT Benefits Will Begin in Late May
The Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS), in collaboration with the Colorado Department of Education (CDE), has announced that Coloradans with eligible school-enrolled children will begin to receive food benefits through the Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) program starting in late May.
The P-EBT program is designed to reimburse households for meals missed during school closures or reduced hours for students who are eligible for free and reduced-price school meals and attend a school that participates in the National School Lunch Program. This is a continuation of the P-EBT program that was initiated in July 2020 to reimburse families on free and reduced-price lunch for meals missed at school due to COVID-19. Families who qualify will receiv
Hawaii Sees ‘Startling’ Increase In Number Of Children Facing Hunger - Honolulu Civil Beat
Hawaii Sees ‘Startling’ Increase In Number Of Children Facing Hunger
Even as benefits programs expand and school meal programs shift, food insecurity is expected to continue to grow in the islands. Reading time: 7 minutes.
More Hawaii children are at risk of going hungry than ever before, new federal data shows.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic began, Hawaii’s hunger rates were lower than national averages. Today, the Aloha State’s situation is worse than national levels a striking shift, according to local researchers.
“The rates were roughly in the 10% ball park pre-COVID, and they’re close to 50% currently,” said Jack Barile, the interim director of the University of Hawaii Manoa’s Social Science Research Institute. “The majority of people facing food insecurity now are facing it for the first time or in recent history, so that’s kind of startling.”
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Trips to the grocery store are getting more expensive, according to a new USDA report. (Shutterstock)
NORTH CAROLINA More than a year into the coronavirus pandemic, making a dollar stretch as far as possible remains a daily undertaking for more than a million in North Carolina and other U.S. states still going to bed hungry.
A new U.S. Department of Agriculture report, however, illustrates how stretching that dollar may be harder than ever right now.
Grocery store prices are rising nationwide as the pandemic wears on. In fact, the cost of a supermarket trip is up 3.5 percent from a year ago, according to the USDA report 75 percent higher than the 20-year average.
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As National Make Lunch Count Day approaches, trips to the grocery store are getting more expensive, a new USDA report says. (Shutterstock)
WISCONSIN More than a year into the coronavirus pandemic, making a dollar stretch as far as possible remains a daily undertaking for the millions/thousands in Wisconsin and other U.S. states still going to bed hungry.
A new U.S. Department of Agriculture report, however, illustrates how stretching that dollar may be harder than ever right now.
Grocery store prices are rising nationwide as the pandemic wears on. In fact, the cost of a supermarket trip is up 3.5 percent from a year ago, according to the USDA report 75 percent higher than the 20-year average.