For the Health of All of Our Nation's Children

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights has joined 127 other national organizations to urge Congress to pass legislation that is critical to the well-being of our nation’s children.  Research shows that one in four children struggle with hunger, and one in three are either obese or overweight.  That makes reauthorizing the nation's two cornerstone child nutrition laws – the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 and the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act – collectively known as Child Nutrition Reauthorization – a critical national priority.

Child nutrition programs such as school meals, the WIC nutrition program for women, infants, and children, and summer and afterschool feeding programs help protect our most vulnerable children from hunger.  For many low-income children, these programs provide their only fully-balanced meals on any given day. For some, they provide their only meals.

Congress is running out of legislative calendar days to complete the reauthorization before the bills expire on September 30. If the child nutrition laws are not reauthorized this summer, millions of children could miss out on improved access to the food they need. Write your members of Congress and tell them the health of our nation’s children depends on Child Nutrition Reauthorization.