{"id":1250,"date":"2023-01-19T21:38:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T21:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/state.nokidhungry.org\/michigan\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2023-01-19T21:38:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T21:38:56","slug":"reflections-on-last-year-the-road-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/state.nokidhungry.org\/michigan\/2023\/01\/19\/reflections-on-last-year-the-road-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on Last Year &amp; The Road Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1250\" class=\"elementor elementor-1250\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3d0a3f7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3d0a3f7\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3771469\" data-id=\"3771469\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d01c434 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d01c434\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Happy New Year from No Kid Hungry <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michigan! <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As we start this new year energized in our fight to end childhood hunger, we\u2019re reflecting on the last year and focusing on necessary changes to child nutrition policy that will move the needle forward to ensuring every kid has the nutritious food they need to thrive.<\/span><\/p><p>2022 was a historic year in our fight to end child hunger as child food insecurity rates reached a historic low thanks to programs like school meals, SNAP, pandemic-EBT, and the Child Tax Credit. Join us in celebrating our shared wins and looking ahead to how we will continue our fight to ensure no kid in Michigan goes hungry.<\/p><h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">Reflecting on 2022<\/span><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Looking back on 2022, there are many wins to celebrate.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/><\/span><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nokidhungry.org\/blog\/everything-you-need-know-about-white-house-conference-hunger-nutrition-and-health\"><b>For the first time in over 50 years, the White House held a conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health<\/b><\/a><b>. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This conference brought together key partners to produce a national strategy to end child hunger by 2030 and identified several key commitments that will play a critical role in ensuring this ambitious goal is met.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nokidhungry.org\/blog\/what-know-about-2021-usda-food-security-numbers\"><b>Child food insecurity hit a historic low.<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> In September, the USDA released their annual report \u201cHousehold Food Security in the United States in 2021\u201d that highlighted the lowest number of food insecure kids since tracking began in 1998, 1 in 8 kids. In Michigan, it\u2019s 1 in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">7<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">kids, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">down <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">from 1 in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">6 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">kids in previous years. While these numbers are hopeful, it\u2019s important to acknowledge that disparities still exist and many of the nationwide waivers and programs that helped lower these numbers will soon be or have been phased out during the course of 2022.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><h4>\u00a0<\/h4><h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #000000\">The Road Ahead<\/span><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite these wins, we know that our work is not over. As we look ahead to 2023, we remain committed to ensuring that <\/span><b>every<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> kid has 3 meals a day, 365 days a year. For us at No Kid Hungry <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michigan<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, that means\u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Continuing to advocate for <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nokidhungry.org\/blog\/policy-priorities-white-house-conference-hunger\"><b>actionable policy changes<\/b><\/a><b> at the federal level<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to improve nutrition access by modernizing the summer meals program, supporting nationwide summer EBT, strengthening SNAP, expanding no-cost school meals and improving WIC.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Working with <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michigan Department of Education and other state and local partners<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, to enact changes such as:<\/span><\/li><\/ul><ul><li style=\"list-style-type: none\"><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Increasing student eligibility and student participation in school breakfast and lunch programs through state level and local district and school level training, technical assistance and storytelling.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prioritizing funding, capacity and opportunities for communities that have more than 70% students of color and eligibility higher than 50%. And to learn more about rural communities throughout Michigan.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Creating political will and engagement to elevate child hunger, create urgency and build to policy change and to protect programs.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As we take this time to both look back on the wins we celebrated in 2022, and look at what\u2019s in store for 2023, we want to say thank you! To our partners, community organizations, and school nutrition staff, none of this work can be accomplished without our shared commitment ending childhood hunger.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year from No Kid Hungry Michigan! As we start this new year energized in our fight to end childhood hunger, we\u2019re reflecting on the last year and focusing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Reflections on Last Year &amp; The Road Ahead - Michigan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nkh-state-nkh-state.pantheonsite.io\/michigan\/2023\/01\/19\/reflections-on-last-year-the-road-ahead\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Reflections on Last Year &amp; The Road Ahead - Michigan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Happy New Year from No Kid Hungry Michigan! 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