The district’s free lunch and breakfast program is federally funded through the USDA’s Community Eligibility Program.

As families worry they could see lapses in food assistance benefits, school nutrition programs will continue running normally.

Sixteen million US children may lose food benefits this week. Research demonstrates that food insecurity has short-term and long-term effects on children's mental and physical health.

Approximately 140 Head Start programs nationwide, serving roughly 65,000 children, will stop receiving federal funding beginning Nov. 1.

A post on X has gone viral for claiming that Project 2025 promoted removing children from single-parent SNAP households.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is infusing $300 million into the federal nutrition program, WIC, to keep it running through October, while a government shutdown continues without an ...

Community gardens, educational programs and breastfeeding rooms are all part of Missouri’s plan to take advantage of one-time federal funding for Head Start programs. Seven Missouri Head Start ...

As the government shutdown stretches into day 14, funding for vital programs remains stuck in a deadlock limbo between Congressional Republicans and Democrats. Thus far, programs such as Social ...

Offices for Nevada’s nutrition assistance program for women and children are expected to close this week due to the ongoing federal government shutdown, and a program tribal and rural communities rely ...

TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas — Travis County is launching a new child care program called "Raising Travis County." On Tuesday, commissioners approved $21 million in funding to create another 1,000 child care ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KELO) — Despite the government shutdown, Youth and Family Services in Rapid City is continuing to support in-home daycares in food and nutrition education. The organization has done ...