Working Poor: Food Insecurity

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There are several programs in the Muncie area that assist those who are dealing with food insecurity. Some of these programs are: Indiana school breakfast and lunch program, Second Harvest Food bank and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program. These three programs help those who suffer from food insecurity but do so in different ways.
The Indiana School Breakfast and Lunch Program is a program open to those children who live in a low income household. “National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is a Federal entitlement program open to public and nonprofit private schools and residential child care institutions. Lunch is available to all children at participating schools, and the meals must meet specific nutritional requirements to receive Federal funds (Indiana Department of Education, 2013). This Program is open to those who reside in Indiana and who are a parent or guardian of a child who in school, and does not continue beyond high school. This program has requirements that deal with the level of household income. The household income requirements deal with the household income before taxes have been taken out. If there is a household of one person, they cannot make more than $21,257; a person in a two person household cannot make more than $28,694. This scale continues all the way to that a household of eight cannot make more than $73,316 (Indiana Department of Education, 2013).
The Second Harvest Food bank, located at 6621 N. Old SR 3 Muncie, IN 47303 can also be contacted by phone at 1(765) 287-8698. Second Harvest has several programs that they offer: Emergency Food Shelters, Emergency Soup Kitchens and the Tailgate program. All these programs focus on food distribution and open to low income residence. Some o...

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Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana. (2013). Food programs . Retrieved from http://www.curehunger.org/Programs/FoodPrograms.aspx
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