Media Contact:Jordan Bakerjbaker@frac.org202-640-1118 WASHINGTON, March 25, 2021 — D.C. Hunger Solutions commends the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for approving D.C.’s Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (Pandemic EBT) plan, which will provide food assistance benefits to children who have lost access to free or reduced-price school meals due to COVID-19-related school closures through June 24, 2021. The recently passed…
Read MoreMedia Contact:Jordan BakerJBaker@frac.org202-640-1118 WASHINGTON, December 9, 2020 — A severe, and growing, lack of full-service grocery stores in Wards 7 and 8 is one of the contributing factors for food insecurity, according to Still Minding the Grocery Gap in D.C. 10th Anniversary Grocery Store report, released today by D.C. Hunger Solutions. The report finds the…
Read MoreMedia Contact:Jordan BakerJBaker@frac.org202-640-1118 WASHINGTON, November 19, 2020 — Households with children have turned to federal nutrition programs to help combat the loss of free or reduced-price school meals due to mandated school closures. As schools in Washington, D.C., make plans for reopening in the future, reaching more children with school breakfast and lunch will be…
Read MoreMedia Contact:Jordan BakerJBaker@frac.org202-640-1118 Statement attributed to Beverley D. Wheeler, director, D.C. Hunger Solutions WASHINGTON, June 3, 2020 — We at D.C. Hunger Solutions are heartbroken over the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and other Black Americans, and stand in solidarity with those who are protesting police violence in the District and across the…
Read MoreMedia Contact:Jordan BakerJBaker@frac.org202-640-1118 WASHINGTON, May 20, 2020 — Washington, D.C., has now been approved by the United States Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service to issue Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer (P-EBT) benefits to eligible students. Families across will now have the opportunity to receive additional public benefits to purchase food for school-aged children who…
Read MoreMedia Contact:Jordan BakerJBaker@frac.org202-640-1118 WASHINGTON, May 13, 2020 — District of Columbia households receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits can purchase groceries online starting today at Amazon.com, increasing their access to healthy food during the COVID-19 pandemic. D.C. SNAP recipients will be able to purchase food using their (Electronic Benefit Transfer) EBT card for at-home…
Read MoreMedia Contact:Emily Pickrenepickren@frac.org 202-640-1118 WASHINGTON, January 24, 2020 — Attorney General Karl Racine, along with New York State Attorney General Letitia James, is leading a group of 15 attorneys general and New York City in a lawsuit to prevent the Trump Administration from implementing a Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) rule change that would take…
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