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The WIC Food Package Proposal: A Deep Dive

WebFruits and Vegetables: The current WIC Food Package provides a Cash-Value Voucher (CVV), which participants can use to purchase fruits and vegetables. In the current Food …

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Help Ensure WIC Gets Fully Funded Coalition Against Hunger

WebWIC Needs Your Help. Current proposed funding levels for WIC in both the House and Senate are inadequate to keep pace with increased participation. Unless Congress acts quickly to ensure that WIC is fully funded, the program may be forced to turn 600,000 eligible postpartum individuals with low incomes and their young children away from …

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Bountiful Blessing Coalition Against Hunger

WebWe offer clients an abundance of resources from Health, House, Senior Care, SNAP, Nutrition, Child Care, Job, Clothing and Shoes, Emergency Information, and more.

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Raise Your Voice to Demand That WIC be Fully Funded

WebWIC is facing a crisis. We need all of you to step up and speak out for Pennsylvania Women, Infants, and Children! As we enter 2024, Congress is working to finalize a …

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The Problems with Block Granting Entitlement Programs

WebA block grant wouldn't respond the same way to a greater hardship and a faltering economy. Fixed funding levels would require states to absorb higher costs, or, to cut eligibility or …

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Building a Movement to End Hunger: Personal Trainer, Kem Ukogu

WebThe winter season and socially distant COVID-19 percautions have kept us all inside for more than one year. The Coalition wanted to help #HungerFighter runners stretch and strengthen thier bodies to get ready for the for the 25th Annual Race Against Hunger, with the help of Philadelphia personal trainer, Kem Ukogu.Ukogu, began sharing his …

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RAISE YOUR VOICE TO DEMAND THAT WIC BE FULLY FUNDED

WebWIC is facing a crisis. We need all of you to step up and speak out for Pennsylvania Women, Infants, and Children! As we enter 2024, Congress is working to finalize a spending deal for the current fiscal year before the March spending deadlines.If WIC does not receive additional funding in the next spending plan, the program would …

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Public Health Management Coalition Against Hunger

WebDid you discover incorrect information about this pantry or soup kitchen? Is so, please let us know

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What is a Medical Expense Deduction

WebINREASING YOUR SNAP ENEFITS: MEDIAL E XPENSE DEDUTIONS Is anyone in your household age 60 or older, or does someone have a disability? You may be able to …

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BUILDING A FOOD SECURE REGION: CREATIVITY, …

WebWHAT WE LEARNED Be nimble. Changes in health and wealth can happen in sudden and unexpected ways, leading to rising rates of food insecurity, particularly for

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Advocacy and Policy Updates Coalition Against Hunger

WebPublic Health Emergency and Emergency Allotments Extended. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced another 90-day extension of the federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) from October 13, 2022 – January 11, 2023.SNAP Emergency Allotments (EAs), the extra SNAP dollars that households get in the second …

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Feast of Justice Coalition Against Hunger

WebNutrition/cooking classes, SNAP (food stamps) screenings, education programs, mental health counseling, resource counseling, hot meals

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Montgomery County hunger factsheet FINAL

WebMONTGOMERY COUNTY. Population: 804,210. What percentage of county residents are food insecure? A safety net of programs helps low-income families in Pennsylvania put …

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LackawannaCounty hunger factsheet FINAL

WebThe State Food Purchase Program is a state-funded program that provides food to food pantries, soup kitchens and other charities to feed low-income residents. The Summer …

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Lancaster County hunger factsheet FINAL

WebLANCASTER COUNTY. Population: 523,594. What percentage of county residents are food insecure? A safety net of programs helps low-income families in Pennsylvania put food …

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