{"id":10396,"date":"2025-05-06T13:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T13:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bread.org\/?post_type=article&#038;p=10396"},"modified":"2025-05-29T18:11:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T18:11:20","slug":"urge-congress-to-protect-and-strengthen-child-nutrition-programs","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.bread.org\/article\/urge-congress-to-protect-and-strengthen-child-nutrition-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Urge Congress to Protect and Strengthen Child Nutrition Programs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Globally, almost 45 million children suffer from severe hunger, and nearly half of all preventable deaths among children under five are attributed to malnutrition. In the U.S., millions of children live in households facing food insecurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Child hunger is a local and a global problem, but together, we can make a difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ask your senators and representatives to protect, restore, and secure robust funding for global nutrition programs, and to fully fund and strengthen the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-black-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/go.bread.org\/page\/78078\/action\/1?ea.tracking.id=webhub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Act Now<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Globally, almost 45 million children suffer from severe hunger, and nearly half of all preventable deaths among children under five are attributed to malnutrition. In the U.S., millions of children live in households facing food insecurity. Child hunger is a local and a global problem, but together, we can make a difference. Ask your senators<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10397,"template":"","tags":[156,158],"focus":[140],"topic":[38],"resource_type":[55],"class_list":["post-10396","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-special-supplemental-nutrition-program-for-women","tag-wic","focus-action-alerts","topic-nutrition","resource_type-action"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bread.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/10396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bread.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bread.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bread.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/10396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bread.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bread.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bread.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10396"},{"taxonomy":"focus","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bread.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/focus?post=10396"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bread.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=10396"},{"taxonomy":"resource_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bread.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource_type?post=10396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}