The recent federal budget decisions have sparked significant concern among advocates for senior citizens, as millions of older Americans rely on food assistance to meet their basic nutritional needs.

Programs that feed older, homebound adults are instituting waiting lists amid budget crunches, rising costs of food, growing demand for their services and funding cuts from the government. Combined ...

BALTIMORE — A group of kindergartners sat attentively in a bright elementary school, ready to learn the keys to living a healthy life. One of the four main pillars, nutrition educator Karen Turner ...

The Tahlequah Public Schools Board of Education, during a July 14 meeting, heard a recap of child nutrition ahead of the new year. Tahlequah began offering free meals to students through a program ...

The program is administered through the Idaho State Department of Education and operates to provide nutrient-dense meals to ...

MILLION BOND. SCHOOL MEAL PROGRAMS SAY POLICY CHANGES FROM THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ARE STRAINING THEIR BUDGETS. THEY’RE RAISING CONCERNS ABOUT FUNDING CUTS WHILE BRACING FOR HIGHER PRICES FROM ...

A vast majority of school nutrition directors say their programs are challenged by food, labor, and equipment costs; staffing shortages; and procurement issues. Those are the core findings of an ...

Nutrition assistance programs do more than fighting hunger. They also may help guard against age-related cognitive decline. Researchers found that people who participated in the US Supplemental ...

Read more about local philanthropic efforts in the Year-end Giving Guide. Whether short or long term, hunger exacerbates virtually every problem it intersects with. It slows recovery from injury or ...

The city’s food assistance program shows how local governments can reduce nutritional inequality. Congress is now considering ...