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Food Security Efforts in the 2025 Budget

This budget cycle, Governor Murphy, Senate President Scutari, and Speaker Coughlin addressed food insecurity in a big way. Governor Murphy signed the $56.7 billion FY2025

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NJFSI Awards Grant to HFNJ to Advance Health Equity

The New Jersey Food Security Initiative (NJFSI), a collaboration of community organizations and local and state agencies led by the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC) with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, today announced it has awarded a $198,612 grant to Hunger Free New Jersey (HFNJ) to bolster food security and improve nutrition to advance health equity across the state.