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View ArticleBread for the World Statement on the 2018 House Farm Bill
Washington, D.C. – Bread for the World today released the following statement regarding the 2018 House Farm Bill. The statement can be attributed to Rev. David Beckmann, president of Bread for the...
View ArticleFeed the Future
In 2016, Congress passed the Global Food Security Act (GFSA), which authorized a U.S. whole-of-government global food security strategy for two years, with overwhelming bipartisan support. GFSA builds...
View ArticleFact Sheet: Get the Facts About SNAP
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps) served more than 41 million Americans in 2017 (as of December 2017). Enrollment in the program almost doubled in the wake of...
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Racial Wealth Gap Learning Simulation
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View ArticleThe Impacts of Proposed Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Cuts on the African-American...
To end hunger and poverty in the United States by 2030, our country needs to support a budget that improves the lives of men, women, and children. Unfortunately, the Trump administration and Congress...
View ArticleFact Sheet: Hunger by the Numbers
Food Insecurity Rates Continue Downward Trend, but Remain Higher than Pre-Recession Levels In 2017, 11.8 percent of households in the U.S.—40 million people—were food-insecure, meaning that they were...
View ArticleThe U.S. Contribution to Ending Global Malnutrition
We have an opportunity to accelerate global progress against malnutrition among pregnant women and young children. Worldwide, maternal and child malnutrition causes millions of deaths each year. In...
View ArticleBread Mourns Passing of Hunger Champion Sen. Richard Lugar
Washington, D.C. – Bread for the World mourns the passing of Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind) on Sunday, April 28. Senator Lugar was a bipartisan leader on both international and domestic hunger issues....
View ArticleU.S. Hunger and Poverty State Fact Sheets
Summary A one-page fact sheet for hunger in the United States, and for each state plus Washington, D.C. Each fact sheet provides these indicators of hunger and poverty: the proportion of households in...
View ArticleFact Sheet: Coronavirus (COVID-19) and SNAP
SNAP is designed to respond to changes in need, making it well suited to respond to crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the first line of...
View ArticleRacially Equitable Responses to Hunger During COVID-19 and Beyond
New Report: Since the pandemic began, Latino/a and Black households are twice as likely to report being food insecure as white households. By Marlysa D. Gamblin and Kathleen King The U.S. Department of...
View ArticleA Year Later: Regaining momentum
By Michele Learner March is Women’s History Month in the United States, and on March 8, the world observed International Women’s Day. First and foremost, gender equity is a critical component of...
View ArticleFact Sheet: Permanently expand the Child Tax Credit to reduce child hunger
Expanding the CTC would do more to reduce hunger and poverty among our nation’s children than any single policy has in decades. The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan includes a one-year expansion of...
View ArticleC-Span Washington Journal
Bread for the World interim co-managing director Heather Taylor spoke with C-SPAN’s Washington Journal about the impact of the Biden administration’s approval of the largest permanent increase in SNAP...
View ArticleThe Best Anti-Poverty Program: Give Them Money
The best anti-poverty program in United States these days, if not elsewhere, is universal basic income (UBI). We saw proof of this in the latest Census Bureau report released in September. The proof...
View ArticleEnding Child Hunger in America through the Universal School Meals Act
By Izzy Koo The United States is often called the wealthiest country in the world, yet 13 million children are food insecure. Thirteen million young boys and girls across this country cannot be sure...
View ArticleOngoing Hunger Crisis in Mali: Why is This Happening?
By Sia Gevao Bread for the World has consistently sought to draw attention to the hunger crisis affecting millions of people in Mali and neighboring countries. According to the latest hunger hotspots...
View ArticleReimagining Resilience
By Syeda Lamia Hossein “Resilience” is both a powerful concept and an increasingly familiar term in international development, where organizations often mention resilience-focused policies,...
View ArticleHunger Hotspots: Starvation Must Not Be a Weapon of War
This month’s entry in Bread for the World’s Hunger Hotspots series, the last for 2023, goes “back to basics.” It revisits an idea that has shaped Bread’s work since its founding nearly 50 years ago,...
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