Food is the Most Important School Supply
Back to Class with Share Our Strength & No Kid Hungry
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has been a staff writer and columnist for the Washington Post, PoliticsDaily.com and the Orlando Sentinel, where her White House coverage led to her selection as a presidential debate panelist. Her work has also appeared in the LA Times, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Town & Country and the New Republic. A DC native and lifelong foodie, she twice represented the capital city in the National Chicken Cooking Contest, and is at work on a memoir.
“Food is the most important school supply.”
Those seven words have become a back-to-class mantra for No Kid Hungry, the campaign launched in 2010 by Share our Strength to combat poverty and child food insecurity.
As students flooded back to school this month, the US Department of Agriculture reported that 18 million American households struggled to feed their families at some point during 2023, according to Reuters. That million-family jump pushed the total of those considered food-insecure to its highest point in nearly 10 years.
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