Low-income advocacy groups in the nation’s capital usually present a united front when it comes to legislation intended to increase benefits and promote better nutrition. But the pending reauthorization of child nutrition programs has revealed a difference in tactics among the country’s leading anti-hunger fighters that could complicate or even prevent passage of a badly-needed extension and expansion of nutrition services for American children in schools and day care.
At issue are two different approaches in supporting the renewal of child nutrition programs, including school lunch, school breakfast, childcare feeding, and WIC. Certain elements of these programs will expire on December 3, 2010 unless congressional action is taken. read more…
