Yet four years ago, when we began to hear that American children were hungry, we were only slightly agitated. At that time one child in every five in the United States was not getting enough to eat.

One child struggling with hunger is one too many. But the heartbreaking reality is that today, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 34 million people, including 9 million children, in the ...

The United States has one of the highest child poverty rates among all developed countries. One in six American children ...

PHOENIX (AP) — America’s schools say kids are hungry — just as pandemic-era ... Congress temporarily made school meals free to all American schoolkids, but since that ended last fall ...

Ohio lawmakers have a chance to help thousands of struggling families by investing $33 million to expand free school meal ...

Armed conflicts and climate change are fueling a global hunger crisis. Tens of millions of children under the age of five are malnourished. Pamela Watts of Rhode Island PBS Weekly introduces us to ...

House Republicans approved a bill Thursday that would call on states to fund portions of the Supplemental Nutrition ...

Children are more likely to go hungry or live in poverty in America ... In other words, an American child dies about every 13 minutes because we don’t do as good a job as our peers in protecting ...

An Oct. 12 column from Editorials Editor Ginnie Graham ("Tribes recognize that politics doesn't belong in feeding hungry children") described a joint initiative between the Indigenous tribes ...

Research over decades has shown that child hunger increases during school vacations. In what is supposed to be a carefree time of play, poor children suffer the pangs of chronic hunger.