Child Nutrition
Feed Today, Lead Tomorrow: End Child Hunger Now!
At home there’s cereal but no milk. Instead of fruit, children are eating fruit snacks and drinking fruit sodas. Missed meals, malnourishment and junk food day after day: This is how almost 17 million children live with hunger.
You Can Help
Congress is considering legislation that can help millions of struggling families put food on the table. Show them you support nutrition programs to that feed needy children!
- Time is running out! Tell the House to move HR 5504, the Improving Nutrition for America’s Children Act. Send a message automatically to your representatives in the House.
- Let your members of the House know that you support HR 5504. Use Voices’ letter as a example!
- Sign up for our newsletter to follow the issues most important to child well-being, and check Voices.org for updates.
Learn More
- Read Voices’ child nutrition brief.
- Read a letter to Speaker Pelosi urging House leaders to pass its child nutrition bill without making cuts to SNAP (formerly, the food stamp program)–update: 106 members of the House signed on!
- Take a look at the Healthy, Hunger-free Kids Act of 2010–S 3307 (passed 8/5/2010 by the Senate [Committee report])
- Review a summary of the Improving Nutrition for America’s Children’s Act of 2010 – HR 5504 (passed 8/5/2010 by the House Education and Labor Committee [Bill text])
- Check out a “Sense of the House” amendment to HR 5136 supporting child nutrition reauthorization (update: passed 5/27/2010 by a 341-85 margin)
- Read a ”Dear Colleague” sign-on letter supporting child nutrition reauthorization (update: 221 members of Congress signed-on!)
