Urban Wire

Feeding the Country during a Pandemic: Seven Ways Forward

A top priority for our nation’s emergency response should be figuring out how to feed those who already struggle with food insecurity and those who may be newly in need.

Food and Nutrition

Administration’s SNAP Proposal Could Also Limit Access to Free School Lunch

Eliminating broad-based categorical eligibility could cut students and schools off from critical assistance.

Food and Nutrition

SNAP’s model is working, but to further reduce food insecurity, it needs a boost—not a funding cut

The administration’s budget proposal includes a $213 billion cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Food and Nutrition

What would happen to SNAP if proposed $191 billion cut became law?

The president's budget lists four strategies to cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program by $191 billion over 10 years.

Food and Nutrition

Building culturally relevant nutrition assistance on tribal lands

American Indian and Alaska Native communities have high rates of food insecurity.

Food and Nutrition

There’s more to SNAP than "Mars bars and Mountain Dew"

Maine Governor Paul LePage recently asserted that SNAP participants use their benefits on junk food, but the choice between eating healthily or not isn’t just about preference.

Food and Nutrition

Food insecurity in the summer: Thinking outside the lunch box

For many kids, summer means camps, family vacation and carefree days. But for kids who rely on school lunches, summer can mean three months without enough to eat.

Food and Nutrition

Mapping food insecurity and distress in American Indian and Alaska Native communities

Maps reveal the large shares of indigenous and tribal communities that don’t have enough to eat, but not the long history of their marginalization.

Food and Nutrition

Poor nutrition leaves kids vulnerable to lead poisoning—and not just in Flint

The conversation about what to do about lead exposure has to include all the ways we may be underinvesting in the health of vulnerable children.

Food and Nutrition

How DC’s farmers’ markets improve food access and the local food system

The city has the third highest rate of childhood obesity in the country, but a new program is making fresh produce readily available for low-income residents.