Policy and Programs
What does SNAP stand for ?
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Among unaccompanied youth, research shows that roughly this percentage avoid shelters entirely, staying in couch-surfing or street situations.
What is 70-80 percent
This term refers to the state in which all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food.
What is food security?
One in six Americans do not have dependable consistent access to enough food
True
During the Great Depression, these long lines formed outside churches and charity kitchens as millions struggled to find their next meal.
What are breadlines?
This USDA program provides nutrition support—including infant formula, healthy foods, and nutrition education—to pregnant individuals, new parents, and young children.
What is WIC
This hidden form of homelessness in rural areas often evades official counts because people stay in abandoned buildings, vehicles, or temporary arrangements.
What is rural hidden homelessness?
These three crops—rice, wheat, and maize—make up the majority of calories consumed globally.
What are rice, wheat, and maize (corn)?
As of 2023, 32 million Americans live below the poverty line
false- 36.8 million people live below the poverty line
In 1946, President Truman signed this act, creating the first permanent federal school lunch program in the United States.
What is the National School Lunch Act?
Housing choice voucher program is also known as
what is Section 8 housing
The McKinney-Vento Act mandates that school districts provide transportation for homeless students to their school of origin; this clause was added in the 2001 reauthorization under this education act.
What is the No Child Left Behind Act?
This U.N. organization leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition worldwide.
What is the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)?
15 percent of college students face food insecurity
False -- up to 23 percent of college students face food insecurity
Founded in London in 1865 and spreading to the U.S. soon afterward, this Christian organization established some of the earliest shelter programs for people experiencing homelessness.
What is the Salvation army ?
This federal program reimburses after-school programs for providing snacks and meals to children in low-income communities.
What is the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)?
In the 1930s, this New Deal agency funded the first public housing developments in the U.S.
What is the Public Works Administration?
In 2021, this many people worldwide were estimated to be undernourished.
What is around 828 million?
What percentage of U.S food waste is estimated annually ?
between 30-40 percent
This environmental crisis of the 1930s displaced thousands of farmers and worsened hunger across the U.S. Plains.
What is the dust bowl ?
This model for addressing homelessness emphasizes individualized services, harm reduction, and voluntary participation rather than requiring treatment before housing.
What is the Housing First model
In 2022, it was estimated that nearly 40% of people experiencing homelessness in the U.S. were living in this “hidden” category, neither on the street nor in shelters.
What is doubled-up or couch-surfing?
True or false: Micronutrient deficiencies, such as iron or vitamin A deficiency, are part of hidden hunger.
True
Most people experiencing homelessness are chronically homeless, meaning they have been homeless for a year or more and have a disabling condition.
False only counts for a small percentage
This volunteer-driven program, later nationwide, began during the 1950s to bring meals to homebound seniors.
What is Meals on Wheels?