Arkansas Hunger

Applicants to the Patrick Leahy Farm to School grant program received an email from the USDA Monday informing them no applications would be reviewed for the 2025 fiscal year.

Arkansas’ governor on Tuesday announced legislation to repeal the state grocery tax and expand liability protections for food banks and their donors.

The bill passed an Arkansas Senate committee with unanimous support Wednesday.

The bill, if passed, would pay for breakfast for all kids in Arkansas public schools.

With almost 20% of the state lacking resources to feed their household, Arkansas has a significantly higher rate of hunger than the national average of 12%.

At a rate of nearly 19%, Arkansas has the highest prevalence of food insecurity in the nation, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report released Wednesday.

A mobile grocery store could bring access to food for residents of neighborhoods without a brick-and-mortar grocer. But, the potential solution seems deceptively simple.

Each year, volunteers show up by the truckload to pick watermelons for local charitable food networks.

Arkansas is one of a few southern states that opted into a new summer food aid program, but the state Department of Human Services won’t get cards to participants until the second week of July.

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Education Secretary Jacob Oliva handed out meals at an event in Jacksonville Thursday.