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  • Almanac of Policy Issues: Food and Nutrition - Background information and links on U.S. domestic hunger policy, including programs like WIC, food stamps, school lunch, and school breakfast programs.
  • Center on Hunger and Poverty - Conducts research and policy analysis on hunger and poverty in the US; promotes asset development; analyzes household food security.
  • Coalition on Human Needs: Food and Nutrition Issues - Background information, legislative analyses, status reports on pending bills, and links on the food and nutrition issues from the Coalition on Human Needs, a coalition of major U.S. anti-poverty organizations.
  • Domestic Food Security and Hunger Briefing Room - Reports and measurement tools on the topic of food security and hunger in the United States, from USDA.
  • Feinstein Center for a Hunger Free America - The Hunger Center is a partnership between the University of Rhode Island and the Feinstein Foundation dedicated to bringing the issue of hunger to the forefront of America's conciousness.
  • Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) - National anti-hunger organization that lobbies on behalf of Food Stamps, the Women Infants and Children (WIC) program, and other federal food and nutrition programs.
  • FRAC - Hunger in the U.S. - Approximately four million American children under age 12 go hungry and about 9.6 million more are at risk of hunger according to estimates based on the results of the most comprehensive study ever done on childhood hunger in the United States - the Community Childhood Hunger Identification Project (CCHIP)
  • Hunger Free America - A program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) to raise awareness about the childhood hunger crisis in the U.S. and mobilize involvement through education, fundraising events and coalition building.
  • National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) - Uses demographic research and program and policy analyses to identify and promote strategies that reduce young child poverty and that improve the lives of poor young children. "There are over 14 million children living in poverty in the United States. More than 5 million of them are under age six. The young child poverty rate is significantly higher in the United States than in other Western industrialized nations."
  • Second Harvest - Hunger: The Faces & Facts - An unprecedented study of who's hungry in America, where they go for food, and the health and social consequences of widespread hunger.
  • Search our Wiki for Regional United States - Find more information about this subject by clicking here

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