President Joe Biden on Wednesday laid out his administration’s plan to tackle hunger in America, with the goal of dedicating billions of dollars to end hunger by 2030. He outlined the strategy at the first White House conference on health and nutrition since 1969, an event that was attended by New Jersey officials who detailed the urgent need for help from the federal government as inflation and food prices make it harder than ever for some people to put a meal on the table.
“In the next ten years my plan is to make at least 9 million children more eligible for free school meals and supporting schools to cook more meals from scratch and purchase more foods from ranchers,” Biden said.
Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin was among New Jersey attendees at the conference. “The president said, ‘If you can’t feed your family, what the hell else matters,’ and that is a bipartisan statement if I have ever heard one,” Coughlin said.
Support for “Hunger in NJ” has been provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
