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| Education Week: New Rule Lets Parents PIck Up Free Meals for Children During Coronavirus Closures |
New USDA Waiver Lets Parents Pick Up Free Meals For Children During School Closures. Education Week’s (3/27, Blad) reports that the US Department of Agriculture announced waiver Thursday that permits parents to pick up “grab-and-go” school meals from school nutrition workers, even if their children aren’t present. |
| The Hill: What coronavirus means for food insecurity |
As it stands, the Department of Agriculture is providing waivers which would permit K-12 students to access to-go meals at a designated location if their schools are shut down. However, each state must apply for the waiver, and the waiver only applies to locations where summer meals programs are already in place. While this form of assistance will help some school-aged children, it won’t be enough to reach most low-income families. |
| Feeding America: The Impact of the Coronavirus on Food Insecurity |
Feeding America’s Map the Meal Gap study can be used to predict changes in food insecurity based on projected changes to unemployment and poverty. |
| National Geographic: Food waste and food insecurity rising amid coronavirus panic |
Nervous consumers hoard groceries and restaurants go take-out, while unemployment skyrockets and food pantries suffer. But solutions exist. |
| Brookings: For millions of low-income seniors, coronavirus is a food-security issue |
Although social distancing is necessary to help limit the spread of the virus, anything that deters people from accessing group meals at senior centers or food banks puts low-income seniors in danger of malnutrition and hunger. Millions of them also typically cannot afford to stock up on food or supplies, and if they can, many need transportation assistance to and from grocery stores. |
| CNBC: Coronavirus on campus: College students scramble to solve food insecurity and housing challenges |
Meal plans are being prorated at some schools and refunds issued, but many students from low-income families have few options. |
| Salud America!: Coronavirus Is Worsening Food Insecurity for Latino, Other Families |
As many families are piling up food in their individual pantries and having food shipped to their homes to avoid public exposure, people receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits are forced to go to the grocery store. Latinos comprise at least 17% of participants in SNAP, the biggest anti-hunger initiative in the country. But SNAP isn't prepared to adapt during a crisis. |
| Washington Post: 'If coronavirus doesn't get us, starvation will': A growing number of Americans say they can't afford to stock up on groceries |
But like millions of Americans on fixed incomes, who rely on social security, disability checks or food stamps to buy necessities each month, Brown doesn’t have much of a choice. It is nearly impossible, she says, to stock up on food, medication or other necessities beyond what she would normally buy. |
| The Guardian: 'A perfect storm': US facing hunger crisis as demand for food banks soars |
An unprecedented number of Americans have resorted to food banks for emergency supplies since the coronavirus pandemic triggered widespread layoffs. The demand for food aid has increased as much as eightfold in some areas, according to an investigation by the Guardian, which gives a nationwide snapshot of the hunger crisis facing the US as millions become unemployed. |
| Practice Greenhealth: How hospitals can address community food insecurity during coronavirus |
The coronavirus pandemic is having a devastating impact on food security. Creative solutions need to be found to help offset this unprecedented disruption. Based on a successful pilot in California, Practice Greenhealth and Health Care Without Harm is working with Copia to coordinate the donation of food from hospitals to communities facing increased food insecurity from COVID-19. |
| Statista: Share of shoppers struggling to afford groceries during the coronavirus outbreak in the United States in March 2020, by Income |
Over 44 percent of lower income survey respondents in the United States stated that their household was having difficulty in affording needed groceries during the second week of March 2020, amid the coronavirus outbreak. In comparison, just 10.8 percent of upper income shoppers stated the same. |
| CityLab: Why Coronavirus Is a Food Security Crisis, Too |
Households that rely on food assistance can’t stock up during the coronavirus crisis. That’s why the U.S. created the P-SNAP program more than a decade ago. |
| WNPR: COVID-19 And Student Food Insecurity: Hartford Public Schools Still Serving Kids |
Two-thirds of kids in Hartford public schools take part in some type of food assistance program, according to the district’s central office. To meet their needs during COVID-19 school closures, the district is feeding kids at eight sites around Hartford. |
| The Daily Tar Heel: Food banks and school districts work to combat coronavirus food insecurity |
More than 29 percent of children in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools receive free or reduced-price lunches, according to PORCH, a group that provides emergency food support to food-insecure people in the Chapel Hill and Carrboro community. In order to prevent these students from going hungry, CHCCS has put together a team made up of district members, local churches and nonprofit organizations to provide free meals to children throughout the district. |
| NPR: Schools Race To Feed Students Amid Coronavirus Closures |
Officials in many districts say they're adapting the playbook they use to feed kids in the summer: grab-and-go meals, handed out at select school sites. These bagged or boxed meals often include lunch as well as breakfast for the following day — think sandwiches and milk, supplemented with lots of nonperishables (chips, granola bars, fruit cups, juice boxes). |
Jilliann Sundberg, District Wide Child Nutrition Education Coordinator
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