Mission readiness, recruitment, retention all risked by hunger
Massive defense budget still leaves some short of assistance May 20, 2021 5:01 AM By Megan U. Boyanton
The coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated hunger among military families, adding to pressure on bipartisan lawmakers to grant them more federal nutrition assistance.
Democratic and Republican supporters on the Hill have pushed their colleagues for years to help hungry Americans in uniform, pointing to food insecurity as a risk to mission readiness, recruitment, and retention. In spite of the countryâs $700 billion-plus defense budget, low-income troops and their families can get barred from some government food aid, relying on
A new report says military families are relying more on food banks and other emergency aid, partly because military spouses lost their jobs or had their hours cut during the pandemic.
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