Tell Congress: End Child Hunger Now!

Our country is still facing an unprecedented hunger crisis – and children, especially children of color and children living in rural areas, are most at risk of food insecurity.

Congress has passed temporary measures to provide families with more food each month, but those programs are set to end soon. Tell your lawmakers to make the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) program permanent and nationwide, extend the strengthened Child Tax Credit, and ensure food banks are able to meet the increased demand through providing them additional food and capacity funds in an upcoming COVID recovery bill.

These measures are critical in the fight to end child hunger. Kids and families are relying on the meals they help provide!

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Help end child hunger through COVID recovery legislation

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13 million children in the United States may face hunger in 2021 due to the lasting economic fallout of the pandemic.

Please support COVID recovery legislation, including any budget reconciliation bills, which include the following critical policies that will help millions of people in America keep food on the table and help put food dollars back into local economies, stimulating recovery efforts.

-- Extend and expand the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) program, currently operating as Pandemic EBT, to ensure the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has the authority needed to continue this important program during summers and for future school closings. And extend and strengthen the Child Nutrition program waiver authority to ensure the flexibility needed to continue critical food assistance operations that are keeping kids fed.

-- Extend the temporary increases in the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit to provide families with children and working adults with additional critical economic resources.

-- Support food banks by increasing investments in food and capacity. This includes increasing funding for USDA food purchases to support food banks' capacity to feed our neighbors in need, specifically through an additional $900 million for food purchases through The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) until September 30, 2022. Also, address the funding shortfall within the Feeding America food bank network for cold storage and distribution capacity to continue meeting the skyrocketing demand for food across the country.

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