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 Budget last month, including an…
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 Budget last month, including an…
BY: SOPHIE NIETO-MUNOZ - SEPTEMBER 7, 2023 7:13 AM As New Jersey students returned to classrooms this week, the number of them eligible for free or reduced school breakfast and lunch jumped —…
Funding in a 2024 Senate appropriations bill for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) falls far short of what is needed to provide all eligible…
Last month, Governor Murphy began the Fiscal Year 2024 budget process with his Budget Address. The governor’s budget message kicks off a legislative review process that will include a series…
Governor Phil Murphy, fulfilling a promise to families in New Jersey, signed the Working-Class Families' Anti-Hunger Act (A2368/S1677) into law, a bill that would increase income eligibility for free school…
The 11-bill package increases eligibility for free school meals and improves access to SNAP Last week, a ten-bill legislative package aimed at reducing hunger passed the New Jersey General Assembly,…
The House of Representatives recently passed the Build Back Better Act, which includes significant investments in warding off childhood hunger. The critical child nutrition provisions within the bill are expected…
After a successful 10-year campaign to feed NJ kids, Hunger Free New Jersey announces a new direction. The New Jersey Food for Thought Campaign was launched in October 2011 when…
Fewer New Jersey children received afterschool suppers in 2020 – the second year in a row that the state headed in the wrong direction in serving low-income children this important…
Sign on to a letter urging Congress, Biden Administration to act to combat childhood hunger!