After a tumultuous election season, former Vice President Joe Biden is the president-elect of the United States.

In the past, Biden has vowed to invest in schools, students, and local food systems. Furthermore, Biden’s predecessor, President Donald Trump, spent much of his four years in office undermining access to healthy food and making it harder for families to put food on the table. The first 100 days of Biden’s presidency are an opportune time for the president-elect to take steps toward ensuring all our nation’s kids have access to delicious, nutritious food at school.

Here’s what the new administration can do for kids and families.

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SNAP is a highly effective and efficient program that currently helps 1 in 8 Americans put food on the table. Research shows that SNAP benefits are already inadequate, delivering only a modest allotment of approximately $1.40 per person per meal, and we cannot afford to further limit these benefits for the most underserved families. Studies demonstrate that SNAP reduces hunger, lowers health care costs, and has a positive lifetime impact on children.  

The proposed cuts have far-reaching impacts. Not only will millions of struggling Americans lose access to these vital nutrition benefits, but also hundreds of thousands of kids will lose access to free school meals. Many kids are automatically eligible for free or reduced-price school meals simply because their household participates in SNAP. In some of these households, school breakfast and lunch are the only full and balanced meals children receive for the day. We cannot allow our children to go hungry at school or at home.

At FoodCorps, we work every day to connect kids to healthy food in school so that they are well-nourished and ready to learn. Our work teaching hands-on lessons in gardening and cooking, as well as the work of other organizations striving to keep kids healthy and fed, is undermined if our students cannot eat healthily at home. We oppose these proposed cuts to SNAP and urge lawmakers to abandon these harmful proposals and focus on policies that will truly help improve the health and nutrition of low-income Americans.

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