Welcome to the inaugural edition of No Kid Hungry's weekly news round-up. We keep pretty up-to-date on news about kids, hunger, poverty, food and social justice around here, and we realized that many of you might appreciate a short weekly wrap-up of the stories, links and articles that were most interesting to us.
We aim to publish this weekly, and we'd love to hear your thoughts. If there are stories we missed, perspectives we need to consider or other formats you'd like to see (An email newsletter? A dedicated Twitter feed? Carrier pigeons?), please drop us a line.
- You'll be hearing a lot about Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) – the federal law that governs child nutrition programs – in the months ahead. For a dry but thorough overview, check out What is the Child Nutrition Act, and Why Should We Care? on U.S. News & World Report's 'Eat + Run' blog.
- If you follow No Kid Hungry, you know that we are VERY KEEN on the power of a healthy school breakfast to change kid's lives, and that's putting it mildly. So we loved this story from the Sacramento Bee about an elementary school in California that serves free breakfast to all their kids as part of the regular school day. The image of little hands pulling red shiny wagons filled with cereal, milk and fruit back to their classrooms warms our hearts.
- It always astounds us that some political leaders continue to argue that people who receive food benefits are out there living the high life. In his blog for The Hill, David Elliott does his part to debunk that idea with this piece on exactly what $1.38 can buy.
- And don't miss this powerful essay by Jeanine Grant Lister about the realities of life in food benefits, and how she was treated by those around her.
