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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 children — or 1 in 6 — that will go hungry. There are 365,000 food-insecure kids in New Jersey alo...