Federal Policy

Today, the Trump Administration published its final “public charge” rule that will increase hunger and poverty by penalizing California’s immigrant […]

Despite the enormous work by food banks and local partners across the state, California is losing ground in the fight against […]

  Yesterday, Representative Susan Davis (D-San Diego) introduced H.R. 3378–the Stop Child Summer Hunger Act of 2019, which will provide […]

Today is the last day to submit a comment regarding the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) request for comments on […]

Two weeks ago California implemented a historic expansion to its CalFresh program (known as food stamps formerly and SNAP federally), impacting […]

December 20, 2018 – Oakland, Calif. – Today, the President signed into law H.R. 2, the Agriculture Improvement Act of […]

Thursday, December 20, 2018 Today, President Donald J. Trump signed House Resolution 2, the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 also […]

Today, the Farm Bill cleared the House on a vote of 369-47 after passing in the Senate yesterday by a […]

This week, the public comment period closed on the proposed public charge rule that would worsen hunger and hardship for […]

Today, the national Protecting Immigrant Families (PIF) campaign kicks off their “Poverty, Hunger and Housing” theme week and CAFB is […]