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            Turnip the Beet on Summer Meals
      It’s award season! USDA is excited to highlight summer meal sponsors who go above and beyond to ensure children receive nutritious, appetizing meals.
      03/22/2024
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        Stakeholder Notification
            Improvements Coming Soon for Monitoring of Child Nutrition Programs
      FNS published a proposed rule that will help ensure the federal child nutrition programs are being operated properly. These regulatory updates will strengthen and clarify the process for correcting serious deficiencies found in FNS’ child nutrition programs.
      02/20/2024
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            American Samoa Launching New USDA Program This Year to Help Nourish School Children During Summer
      To further address food insecurity in American Samoa and provide more equitable resources for island communities, USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service will provide a higher benefit to American Samoa families, as compared to the U.S. mainland, through the new, permanent summer nutrition program for children – known as Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer.
      01/29/2024
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            Hawaii Launching New USDA Program This Year to Help Nourish School Children During Summer
      To further address food insecurity in Hawaii and provide more equitable resources for island communities, USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service will provide a higher benefit to Hawaii families, as compared to the U.S. mainland, through the new, permanent summer nutrition program for children – known as Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer.
      01/29/2024
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        Stakeholder Notification
            Establishing the Summer EBT Program and Rural Non-Congregate Option in the Summer Meal Programs
      USDA’s goal across all summer nutrition programs is simple: Connect children with nutritious food during the summer months to help them grow and thrive. This interim final rule is an important step forward in increasing access to these services.
      01/03/2024
    USDA Recognizes Hard-Working School Meals Professionals, Empowers Them to Do Right in School Lunchrooms
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            USDA Highlights 2023 Successes in Serving Farmers, Families and Communities
      USDA is marking the end of 2023 by highlighting on-the-ground projects and partnerships that are building economic prosperity for farmers, families, and communities nationwide.
      12/22/2023
    Critical Need to Increase Food Security in Rural Alaska
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            Critical Need to Increase Food Security in Rural Alaska
      A key part of our work to end hunger, improve nutrition, increase physical activity, and reduce diet-related diseases is focusing on historically under-served areas, like rural and Tribal communities. Alaska, for instance, faces unique challenges.
      09/20/2023
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            USDA Announces Approval of D-SNAP for Hawaii Disaster Areas
      USDA announced that low-income Hawaii residents recovering from the devastating wildfires beginning Aug. 8, 2023, could be eligible for assistance from the USDA’s Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or D-SNAP.
      09/14/2023
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        Stakeholder Notification
            Child Nutrition Program Integrity Final Rule
      FNS published a final rule on program integrity to ensure that child nutrition programs are properly operated and managed to protect federal funds and taxpayer dollars.
      08/23/2023
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            Connecting Kids To Meals: A Valued Resource For Kids In Northwest Ohio
      Connecting Kids to Meals, known as CKM, is a nonprofit agency in Toledo, Ohio, that provides healthy meals at no cost to at-risk kids in low-income and underserved areas of Northwest Ohio. With a nearly 20-year history of feeding hungry kids, the critical work of CKM becomes more important every day.
      05/22/2023
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            Food Help on the Way for Arkansas Households Hit by Tornadoes and Severe Storms
      Approximately 7,000 families in Cross and Pulaski County affected by recent tornadoes and severe storms will soon be able to receive food packages containing nutritious, high-quality foods that are 100% grown and produced on farms in the U.S. – known as USDA Foods. USDA approved the short-term measure to address an immediate need for food until a longer-term solution is ready to be put in place.
      04/11/2023
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            USDA Celebrates 2022 Summer Meals Champions and Looks Ahead to Summer 2023
      USDA’s summer meal programs – the Summer Food Service Program and Seamless Summer Option – reduce food and nutrition insecurity and help ensure kids are healthy and ready to learn when they return to school in the fall.
      02/28/2023
    USDA Kicks Off Summer Meals
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            More than 40 States and Territories to Issue $12.5 Billion in USDA’s Child Food Benefits for Summer
      USDA has partnered with 42 states and territories across the country to provide summer food buying benefits to families with children. These states and territories will provide an estimated $12.5 billion in temporary nutrition benefits to approximately 32 million children.
      08/31/2022
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            FNS Programs at Work in the San Francisco Bay Area
      In early August, Deputy Under Secretary Stacy Dean and Administrator Cindy Long travelled to San Francisco for meetings and events related to the work FNS does to support local communities - visiting programs that have an impact on addressing hunger.
      08/23/2022
    Harvesting Health All Summer Long
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            Harvesting Health All Summer Long
      The FNS Turnip the Beet awards recognize outstanding summer meal program sponsors for going above and beyond, ensuring children receive high quality meals in a fun, safe and healthy learning environment when school is out.
      07/06/2022
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            Statement from Secretary Tom Vilsack on Passage of Keep Kids Fed Act
      I am pleased to see that Congress has taken action to provide much needed support to help USDA’s child nutrition programs serve nutritious meals to America’s children. - Secretary Vilsack
      06/24/2022
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            Statement from Secretary Tom Vilsack on Congressional Deal for Child Nutrition
      USDA’s child nutrition programs provide nutritious meals to America’s children. The school and other nutrition professionals who make these meals possible need additional resources and continued flexibilities as they grapple with the ongoing challenges presented by the pandemic. The deal would ease uncertainty and bring a measure of relief to our schools, summer sites and child care feeding programs - Secretary Vilsack.
      06/22/2022
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            USDA Promotes Program Access, Combats Discrimination Against LGBTQI+ Community
      FNS announced today that it will interpret the prohibition on discrimination based on sex found in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and in the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, as amended, SNAP to include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
      05/05/2022
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            USDA Tackles Food Insecurity, Expands Program Access
      FNS today reflected on its efforts over the past year to ensure households across the country have access to a nutritious diet. Throughout the first year of the Biden-Harris Administration, FNS bolstered its nutrition assistance programs through a wide range of administrative actions and with the unprecedented $12 billion investment in food assistance provided by the American Rescue Plan Act.
      01/20/2022
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            USDA Announces Increased Funding to Support School Meals and to Help Continue Serving Healthy Meals to Kids
      Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced an adjustment in school meal reimbursements to help schools continue to serve children healthy and nutritious meals. This move will put an estimated $750 million more into school meal programs across the nation this year, making sure federal reimbursements keep pace with food and operational costs, while ensuring children continue to receive healthy meals at school.
      01/06/2022

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