Monday Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack was out stumping to gain public support for the Child Nutrition Reauthorization bill, which will soon be coming through Congress. The reauthorization presents a significant opportunity to improve the quality of school meals served to more than 31 million children in more than 100,000 schools across the country and to reduce barriers to participation.
The Secretary was in Worchester, Mass. to help launch a hospital hunger initiative at UMass Memorial Health Care where he unveiled a new handbook that takes a practical, hands-on approach to combating food insecurity and hunger. The book, called "Hunger in the Community: Ways Hospitals Can Help," provides hospitals workers with all the information they need to get a program started.
USDA's Food and Nutrition Service is the Federal agency that administers the Nation's 15 domestic nutrition assistance programs which together comprise the Nation's food safety net. Nutrition education and outreach efforts to the underserved are top priorities in all food and Nutrition Service mission areas.
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