A Pennsylvania Proposal to Fight Hunger
and Promote Health in the 2007 Farm Bill

Summary of Key Recommendations
(Click on the link above to view the summary of key recommendations,
including a current list of endorsing organizations.)

If your organization would like to endorse these key recommendations, please send your organization's name and your executive's name and title to info@pahunger.org.

For additional background on each of the recommendations, click on the links below:

Recommendation 1: Make the Commodity Supplemental Food Program Available in Every State.

Recommendation 2: Raise the Food Stamp Program's Minimum Benefit to $25 a Month.

Recommendation 3: Increase General Asset Limits in the Food Stamp Program.

Recommendation 4: Encourage More Fruit and Vegetable Purchases with Food Stamp Dollars.

Recommendation 5: Encourage States to Integrate Food Distribution with Nutrition Education.

Recommendation 6: Fund Local Food System Capacity-Building in Support of Food Security.

Recommendation 7: Improve Access to Fresh Produce by More Funding for Local Marketing.

Watch the The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' "Making America Stronger" video, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the of the reforms achieved by the Food Stamp Act of 1977.

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