Advocacy

The Mayors Alliance to End Childhood Hunger will tap the individual and collective leadership of Mayors to take meaningful actions to end childhood hunger in cities nationwide. We are building a strong, nonpartisan cohort of national Mayoral champions for ending child hunger.

Mayors Alliance Members Spearhead Passage of Mayoral Resolution on Summer Meals

July 1, 2024

In June 2024, 80 members of the Mayors Alliance to End Childhood spearheaded the passage of a mayoral resolution by the US Conference of Mayors (USCM) focused on summer meals. The resolution’s passage officially integrates the focus of summer meals into USCM’s platform and guide for its advocacy agenda for 2025. The resolution was led […]

Mayors Alliance’s Leaders Write to Congress with Farm Bill Priorities

May 29, 2024

The Mayors Alliance’s leaders – Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome, Baton Rouge, LA (Chair) and Mayor Mattie Parker, Fort Worth, TX (Vice-Chair) wrote to congressional leaders voicing the Mayors Alliance’s priorities to be included in Farm Bill negotiations that are underway in Congress. Read the letter here. […]

Mayor Sharon Weston Broome Issues Urgent Call to Action on Rising Child Hunger Crisis

October 30, 2023

Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome has issued a plea to Congress demanding immediate action in response to the alarming findings of the 2022 USDA Food Security Report. The report reveals a devastating increase in child hunger across the United States, painting a grim picture facing millions of our most vulnerable citizens. Read more here. […]

Heinrich, Fetterman, Warnock Introduce Legislation to Help End Childhood Hunger

October 26, 2023

U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, John Fetterman (D-Pa.), and Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) introduced the Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act, legislation to make it easier for students to access quality, nutritious school meals. The bill permanently increases the […]

Post-pandemic, SNAP benefits aren’t high enough to buy food

July 18, 2023

Throughout the pandemic, the roughly 42 million people in the U.S. on food stamps got an extra $95 a month. That additional money was enough to pay for meals in almost every county in the country, even as grocery bills skyrocketed last year. Groups like the National Association of Counties and the Mayors Alliance to End […]