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An Austin-area food bank wants students to get healthy meals, so it opened a food pantry at a schoolThe Central Texas Food Bank officially launched its Feeding Futures School Pantry Program at a Del Valle ISD elementary school on Wednesday. The organization hopes to provide 30 meals per student each month.
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Nearly 1 in 6 Texas households are food insecure, significantly higher than the national average. That’s 1.7 million households in Texas, about 300,000 more than the year before.
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While Congress made school meals free for all children throughout most of the pandemic, that program expired in June 2022. Georgetown ISD officials said the change was jarring for families and outstanding meal balances started to rise during the first few months of the school year.
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For many young people, the toughest choice they will ever have to make about food is what to eat at home or what to choose from a menu.But for Texas high…
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From Texas Standard:Representatives from Texas food banks will gather at the Capitol on Tuesday to talk with legislators about food insecurity and lobby…
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On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. revisits an interview with the honorable George T. ‘Mickey’ Leland, congressman from…
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A non-profit organization that provides food to elderly and homebound people is asking Travis County for money to help deal with the sequester. Those…
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Hunger in Austin is the focus of a series of videos produced by students at the University of Texas, the project of an organization called the Creative…
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Calls to the area’s health and human services hotline asking for information about food pantries were up 55 percent over the past year, according to a…
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Most kids look forward to their school's winter break. But millions of students in the U.S. get free or reduced-price meals at school, and when school is closed, many of those children eat less until classes are back in session.