Tell Congress to Act to End Child Hunger This Year!
The Half in Ten campaign joined 127 other national organizations last week to urge Congress to pass legislation that is critical to the well-being of our nation’s children. Nearly 1 in 4 children lived in a household struggling with hunger in 2008, and research shows that 1 in 3 are either obese or overweight. That makes it a critical national priority for Congress to reauthorize the nation’s two cornerstone child nutrition laws—the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 and the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act—collectively known as Child Nutrition Reauthorization
Child nutrition programs such as school meals; the WIC nutrition program for women, infants, and children; and summer and afterschool feeding programs help protect our most vulnerable children from hunger. These programs provide many low-income children with their only fully balanced meal—or sometimes only meal—on any given day.
Write your Senators and Representative!
Congress is running out of legislative calendar days to complete the reauthorization before the bills expire on September 30. If it does not reauthorize the child nutrition laws this summer, millions of children could miss out on improved access to the food they need. Write your members of Congress and tell them that the health of our nation’s children depends on Child Nutrition Reauthorization.
