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FRAC News Archive 2003

	December 18, 2003 - FRAC Special Analysis: Mayors Document Hunger and Homelessness
	December 18, 2003 - USDA Undertakes Comprehensive Review of WIC Food Package
	December 12 , 2003 - National "Call-In" for New Federal Funding for Child Nutrition Programs
	December 12 , 2003 - Summary of FY2004 Federal Nutrition Program Funding in House-passed Omnibus
	December 8, 2003 - Coalition Leaders Call for Action to End Hunger
	December 5, 2003 - WIC Food Package Revisions: Action Alert and Model Letter
	December 5, 2003 - Food Stamp Participation Increases in September 2003 to More Than 22.7 Million Persons; Is About 5.8 Million Persons Higher Than in July 2000
	November 25, 2003 - Urban Institute Report: "Many Families Turn to Food Pantries for Help"
	November 21, 2003 - Transcript of Remarks by Jim Weill at the Food Stamps Stakeholder Seminar - Brookings Institution
	November 18, 2003 - 2002 Food Stamp Program Participant Access Rates
	November 7, 2003 - Child Nutrition Reauthorization Focus Shifts to the Administration's Fiscal Year 2005 Budget
	November 7, 2003 - Food Stamp Participation Jumps in August 2003 to Almost 22.4 Million Persons; Is Almost 5.5 Million Persons Higher Than in July 2000
	November 6, 2003 - FRAC School Breakfast Scorecard: Low-Income Student Participation in Breakfast Programs Doubles Since 1990, But Stalls in 2002-2003 on Key Measure
	October 31, 2003 - USDA Report: Food Insecurity and Hunger Increase in U.S. for the Third Year in a Row
	October 31, 2003 - USDA Report: Food Insecurity and Hunger Rates Too High in the District
	October 24, 2003 - Child Nutrition Reauthorization Delayed: Focus Shifts to Fiscal Year 2005 Budget
	October 24, 2003 - ALERT: Appropriations and Minimum Wage Legislation
	October 9, 2003 - Food Stamp Participation Jumps in July 2003 to More Than 22 Million Persons; Is 5.15 Million Persons Higher Than July 2000
	October 8, 2003 - Fall Recess Message: Urge Congress to Enact Positive Improvements and Do No Harm to the Child Nutrition Programs
	October 8, 2003 - USDA Studies Find that Income Verification in the National School Lunch Program Does Harm, Without Doing Good
	October 2, 2003 - USDA Radio News Service: FNS Administrator Roberto Salazar Comments on the October 1st Restoration of Food Stamp Benefits for Immigrant Children (MP3, or Real Audio)
	October 1, 2003 - Low Income Legal Immigrant Children Regain Eligibility for Food Stamp Program Benefits October 1st
	September 25, 2003 - USDA Announces the End of Food Stamp Paper Coupons; Transition to Electronic Issuance of Food Stamp Benefits is in Final Stages
	September 23, 2003 - Power Outage and Replacement/Disaster Food Stamps (Hurricane Isabel)
	September 19, 2003 - Fiscal Year 2003 School Breakfast Program Start-up Grants
	September 15, 2003 - Child Nutrition Reauthorization Action Alert: Advocates Continue To Press For Child Nutrition Investments With No Harm To The Programs.
	September 12, 2003 - Food Stamp Participation Increases in June 2003 to More Than 21.8 Million Persons; Is More Than 4.9 Million Persons Higher Than July 2000
	September 5, 2003 - Congress is Back: Tell Congress to Give More Children Access to Child Nutrition Programs
	September 5, 2003 - New Study Shows Participation in Federal Nutrition Programs Can Contribute to Reducing Childhood Obesity
	September 5, 2003 - Updated short list of FRAC's top priorities for Child Nutrition Reauthorization
	August 18, 2003 - Power Outage and Replacement Food Stamps Information Page
	August 18, 2003 - Low-Income New Yorkers Affected by the Blackout Can Obtain Replacement Food Stamp Benefits (New York City Coalition Against Hunger)
	August 6, 2003 - Food Stamp Participation Increases in May 2003 to More Than 21.5 Million Persons; Is More Than 4.66 Million Persons Higher Than July 2000
	July 14, 2003 - Report: Emerging Links Between Hunger and Obesity Require Attention / For Many Households, Lack of Money Can Contribute to Both Hunger and Obesity
	July 3, 2003 - Food Stamp Participation Jumps in April 2003 to More Than 21.2 Million Persons; Is More Than 4.35 Million Persons Higher Than July 2000
	June 27, 2003 - Appropriations Alert: Take Action to Prevent Funding Cuts in Key Food and Nutrition Programs
	June 26, 2003 - FRAC Report on Status of Federal Summer Meals Programs: "Hunger Doesn't Take A Vacation"
	June 26, 2003 - DC Hunger Solutions News Release: Thousands of Needy Children May Be Left Unserved by the City's Summer Food Program
	June 20, 2003 - Chart on the proposed funding levels for nutrition programs in FY2004 Agriculture Appropriations
	June 13, 2003 - Media Coverage of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's 2003 Kids Count Data Book
	June 11, 2003 - 13th Annual Benefit Dinner for FRAC and the Campaign To End Childhood Hunger, Tuesday, June 17, 2003
	June 6, 2003 - Food Stamp Participation Jumps in March 2003 to More Than 21 Million Persons; Is More Than 4.1 Million Persons Higher Than July 2000
	June 6, 2003 - Remarks by FRAC President Jim Weill at Hunger Awareness Day Press Conference in Washington, D.C.
	June 5, 2003 - FRAC Supports National Hunger Awareness Day and Federal Child Hunger Initiatives That Will Increase Food Security
	June 5, 2003 - Remarks by FRAC President Jim Weill on Launch by USDA of Web-Based Food Stamp Program Prescreening Tool
	May 16, 2003 - Update on the Tax Cut Debate
	May 5, 2003 - Food Stamp Participation Jumps in February 2003 to More Than 20.7 Million Persons; Is More Than 3.8 Million Persons Higher Than July 2000
	April 9, 2003 - FRAC Center: Nutrition Program Benefits for Reservists
	April 4, 2003 - More than Seventy Organizations Sign Letter to Congressional Budget Committees Opposing Budget Cuts
	April 3, 2002 - E-mail Congress Now; Oppose Budget Cuts for Children
	April 3, 2003 - Food Stamp Participation Jumps in January 2003 to Almost 20.7 Million Persons; Is Almost 1.8 Million Persons Higher Than One Year Earlier
	April 3, 2003 - FRAC Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry on Child Nutrition Programs
	April 2, 2003 - Urge your Senators and Representatives to Oppose Any Cuts to the Nutrition Programs in the Budget Resolution
	March 31, 2003 - Resources for Outreach on Legal Immigrant Food Stamp Restorations (Updated)
	March 27, 2003 - Picking Up the Pieces: What went wrong in the District of Columbia’s Summer Food Service Program in 2002, and how to rebuild in 2003
	March 13, 2003 - Food Stamp Participation Jumps in December 2002 to More Than 20.5 Million Persons; Is Almost 1.8 Million Persons Higher Than One Year Earlier
	March 4, 2003 - Take Action on TANF Reauthorization
	February 20, 2003 - FRAC Publication: "State of the States" Profiles Hunger and Nutrition Programs Across the Nation
	February 18, 2003 - Report: Get Ready for Food Stamp Reauthorization Changes in Your State -Updated
	February 7, 2003 - Food Stamp Participation Jumps in November 2002 to 20.3 Million Persons; Is 1.8 Million Persons Higher Than One Year Earlier
	February 3, 2003 - FRAC Response to President Bush's FY 2004 Budget Proposal
	January 24, 2003 - The Recent Debate Over School Lunch "Overcertification": Unclear Data And Ill-Considered Proposals Are A Threat To Eligible, Low-Income Children
	January 17, 2003 - Sign on to the "National Call to Congress: It's Time to Reinvest in Our Children. Priorities for Child Nutrition Reauthorization"
	January 9, 2003 - USDA Report on Food Stamp Program Participation by Eligible People, 2000
	January 3, 2003 - Food Stamp Participation Jumped by 332,700 Persons in October 2002; Level Topped 20.1 Million Persons

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