Federal Public Policy
Primary Focus
Work directly to protect and strengthen federal nutrition programs.
Secondary Focus
Work in collaboration to protect and strengthen programs that are anti‐poverty and anti‐racist.
- Budget, tax proposals, and welfare reform
- Earned Income Tax Credit
- Encourage participation in the democratic process
- Act on pillars 1-3 of the White House National Strategy on Hunger, Health and Nutrition.
State Public Policy
Primary Focus
Work directly to protect and strengthen state nutrition programs and hunger support systems.
- Cliff Effect Legislation: An act concerning public assistance for working families and the creation of a pilot program to address the impacts of the Cliff Effect
- Hunger‐Free Campus Initiative
- MEFAP—the Massachusetts Emergency Food Assistance Program
- HIP—the Healthy Incentives Program
- Transportation
Secondary Focus
Work in collaboration to protect and advance access to healthy food.
- Universal School Meal Campaign
- Health Equity at All Levels (HEAL) Legislation
- Expanded food literacy in MA schools
- State funded nutrition benefits for immigrants not eligible for SNAP
Tertiary Supported Policies
Support the advancement of equity by aiding other organizations and acts addressing underlying causes of hunger in Massachusetts.
- Affordable housing and utilities
- Access to affordable services/education, such as childcare, higher education, behavioral health services, substance abuse treatment, and services for seniors and disabled people.
- Universal access to affordable health insurance
- Support other organizations’ policy priorities when overlapping and appropriate (for example: MA Food System Collaborative, CISA, MA Public Health Association, Lift Our Kids Coalition).
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