It’s all hands on deck.

Join the Day of Action on Dec. 14 to urge the Senate to quickly pass the historic Build Back Better Act (BBBA) with the child nutrition and anti-poverty provisions intact. The House of Representatives passed the $1.75 trillion bill late last month. 

The BBBA’s critical child nutrition provisions would:

  • expand the number of schools that would be able to offer free meals to all students through the Community Eligibility Provision, an expansion that would allow nearly 9 million more low-income students to access healthy meals in school
  • give states the option to implement the Community Eligibility Provision statewide;
  • provide $30 million for school kitchen equipment;
  • provide $250 million for a Healthy School Meal Incentives demonstration project;
  • extend the Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) program nationwide for 29 million students who receive free or reduced-price school meals; and
  • allow states, as well as Indian Tribal Organizations, that participate in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) to provide Summer EBT.

The bill also would make the child tax credit, set to expire by the end of the year, permanent.

 

Action Steps to Take Now:

  1. Call and email your Senators. Make clear the impact BBBA provisions will have in your state. Share stories to drive home those impacts. 
  2. Get Vocal on Social. Tag @FRACtweets and your Members of Congress. Find their Twitter handles here

Next Week:

  1. Anti-Hunger Community Day of Action on Tuesday, December 14 — Join FRAC to #SealTheDeal on #BuildBackBetter.  Flood the Senate phone lines with this call-in (202-224-3121) day by letting Senators know what’s at stake. 
  2. Make noise on social using the sample tweets below: 

DYK nearly 800 orgs, including @fractweets joined together in a letter urging passage of the #BuildBackBetter Act with the essential anti-hunger, antipoverty, and #childnutrition provisions. Read the letter. https://bit.ly/3ml0ml7

Help get #BuildBackBetter over the finish line! Use @fractweets Action Network to urge your Senators to quickly pass the #BuildBackBetter Act, esp investments in critical #childnutrition provisions and the #ChildTaxCredit. https://p2a.co/iG9pJFn

DYK, 59% of households spend credit payments on food? When families struggle to keep up with monthly expenses, they often have to take on debt to make ends meet. The expanded #ChildTaxCredit in #BuildBackBetter eases that strain. https://bit.ly/3dyqvsz 

  1. State Impact Data — Look forward to more state-specific child nutrition impact data to share with your Members of Congress.

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