{"id":12017,"date":"2023-01-13T16:33:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T16:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/state.nokidhungry.org\/south-carolina\/?p=12017"},"modified":"2025-04-09T18:45:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T18:45:22","slug":"happy-new-year-south-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/state.nokidhungry.org\/south-carolina\/2023\/01\/13\/happy-new-year-south-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year, South Carolina!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Happy New Year from No Kid Hungry South Carolina! 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>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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 South Carolina goes hungry.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Reflecting on 2022<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Looking back on 2022, there are many wins to celebrate.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<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>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<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. 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>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Specifically in South Carolina,\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In South Carolina, we provided over $370,000 in grant funding to ten school districts and community organizations to feed more kids.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our partnerships with SC Thrive, the University of South Carolina, and Lowcountry Food Bank have increased awareness of and access to summer meals.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Join us in celebrating our shared wins and looking ahead to how we will continue our fight to ensure no kid in South Carolina goes hungry.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600\">The Road Ahead<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<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 South Carolina, that means\u2026\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<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>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Supporting school meal programs by providing critical resources to school districts like grant dollars, trainings and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/state.nokidhungry.org\/south-carolina\/resources\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<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>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year from No Kid Hungry South Carolina! 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