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More than 35 million low-income Americans live in households at risk of hunger which means our nation must make greater public investments in the full range of federal nutrition programs to address this problem.
A major advocacy issue right now is the reauthorization of the 2007 Farm Bill currently before Congress. Anti-hunger organizations like the Food Research and Action Center and America’s Second Harvest have compiled a list of recommendations for making it more effective...read more |
 The Community FoodBank of New Jersey, long a recognized leader in the fight against hunger on the state level, has an on-site job-training program to help some of the people who might otherwise be on the receiving end of emergency food assistance. The fourteen-week job and life skills program, which began in 2000, prepares men and women for careers in the food service industry...read more |
Most Americans believe that between 1 and 5 million people live in poverty in the United States when the actual number is 37 million. When you consider that the federal poverty level is artificially low and doesn’t reflect the true cost of a family’s basic living expenses, the number of people living in poverty in this country is even higher...read more |
This local report summary provides a snapshot of hunger in the counties served by the Community FoodBank of New Jersey and its Subsidiary Distribution Outlets. All references to people served by the Community FoodBank of New Jersey also include those who are served by the SDOs. The list of counties covered is at the end of this summary...read more |
NJ ranks 44th out of the 50 states and District of Columbia on annual School Breakfast Scorecard
During the 2006-2007 school year, 118,673 low-income New Jersey students participated in the national School Breakfast Program, according to the School Breakfast Scorecard 2007. This was a modest 2 percent increase over last year’s participation rate, giving New Jersey a low rank of 44th in the nation. The Scorecard is issued annually by the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) to measure national and state trends in school breakfast...read more
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| The Community FoodBank of New Jersey, a member of America’s Second Harvest, fights hunger and poverty by the distribution of food and grocery products, by education and training, by creating new programs to meet the needs of low-income people, and by involving all sectors of society in this battle. Since our incorporation in 1982, we have grown in both the size and scope of our operation...read more |
| New Jersey has 738,969 residents who lived in poverty in 2005, according to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau data released in August, 2006. While the national economy continues to grow, stagnant wages, rising health, energy and other costs, and an inadequate government response means that the economic growth isn’t reaching the bottom half of Americans. Families are finding themselves struggling more to make ends meet to cover basic necessities such as food, housing, transportation and health care...read more |
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