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play c-span radio. c-span. powered by cable. >> washington journal continues. "washington journal" continues. host: welcome back. i am joined by lisa davis of share our strength, the senior vp of the no kid hungry campaign. welcome to the program. let's talk about the organization called share our strength. guest: we are a national nonprofit that brings people together to share their strength and help make sure all families and children can have what they need to thrive. share our strength leads the no kid hungry campaign which is focused on ending childhood hunger in the united states. host: when we say going hungry or food insecure, how is that defined? guest: food insecurity is the measure of the u.s. government uses to help to find how many people do not have consistent access to enough food because of

their economic situation. host: the usda has said that a lot more people were food insecure for 2022 than they were in 2021. can you explain why that happened? guest: the first thing to know is child hunger is a very solvable problem and we know what the solutions are. during the pandemic when schools shut down their physical buildings and kids were not getting those free meals everyone sprang into action. elected officials, nutrition officials, community organizations. as a result of the smart policies enacted and the tremendous effort we saw food insecurity declined to the lowest level since the usda started tracking it in 1998. host: you would like to see those policies come back and become permanent?

guest: exactly. we sought filed hungry declined 46%. -- we saw child hungry declined 46%. as those policies have timed out at a time families are facing hardship we have seen all of that progress reverse. it is unacceptable and entirely avoidable. host: i want to show an article from the associated press with a headline school kids in eight states can now eat free school meals. advocates verge congress for nationwide policy in those states are minnesota, new mexico, colorado, vermont, michigan, california, massachusetts and maine. those are the students -- those of the states were students regardless of income will get free lunches. do you agree with those? guest: i do. other states have illuminated reduced prices which can be

really burdensome on families and they have expanded a technical provision called the community eligibility provision which let schools in high poverty areas provide free meals. there are a lot of steps that are happening and we know there is so much evidence that when kids get the nutrition they are need their physical health is better. they develop better. they are more able to learn. they perform better at tests and are more likely to graduate from high school. these programs are so important. host: we will invite our callers to call in if you have a question for our guest lisa davis please give us a call by region. if you are in the eastern or central time zones the number is (202) 748-8000. mountain or pacific (202) 748-8001. we do have a special line set aside for those that are experiencing any kind of food

insecurity. you can call the line (202) 748-8002. we would like to hear about your experience. i want to show you a pie chart from the usda. this shows food insecure households. this is the amount. adults only is 8.5%. low food security among children is 7.8%. very low food security among children at 1%. if you could give us the difference between low food security and very low? where is that line? guest: on in five children in united states lives at risk of hunger. what that means is they are in a household that does not

consistently have access to enough food for everyone in the household to lead an active and healthy life. those are parents having to make the impossible choice between whether they pay the rent or fill the pantry. the very low food security number are the families with kids that are actually missing meals. they are experiencing the most acute form of food insecurity. both low food security and very low food security have a well documented impact on children and families. their health, their education, even their graduation rates and lifetime earnings. in washington we get so caught up in thinking about how do we write policies that are fiscally responsible, but when you look at the effort of feeding her

kids and have the ability to thrive and succeed, the return on that investment is second to none. we cannot afford not to nourish our children. host: this is an article from politico that says food aid for low income mothers becoming spending flashpoints. advocates fear they may have to begin putting people on wait lists to receive benefits if congress does not increase funding in january. where do things stand in congress? guest: congress averted a shut down. it is only temporary. they have to come back and do it again in january and february. host: what does a shut down mean to people who are on food stamps and wic and things like that? guest: for some families that has catastrophic consequences. during and after the pandemic there were smart bipartisan investments in wic that made it

more accessible to many more mothers and babies and children that need that program. this congress does not maintain those investments. they will have to start turning away these moms and babies. they will not get the nutrition they need. wic is such an important program. it helps parents make ends meet and has such a well documented impact on the health of the babies and children that participate. looking at how wealthy our nation is, i think there should be strong bipartisan support to make sure we are giving babies the healthy food need to thrive. host: rachel is in houston, texas. good morning. caller: i want to wish everybody a happy thanksgiving. speaking of thanksgiving it is appropriate to be discussing food insecurity since the holiday is centered around food.

i would like to mention something that affects children and adults of all ages. that is having food for people who are not able to swallow food well. i have family members who use the meals on wheels program but unfortunately some people cannot chew the food where they might not have the ability to cut up the food and if they cannot afford caregivers to help prepare the food for them they cannot beat that. -- they cannot eat that. i'm not sure if there is something that can be done to ensure people with medical conditions who need the feud -- you need the food are able to get food properly prepared for them. guest: you raise a number of really important points.

it is critical to make sure that our nutrition programs are making food available that meets people where they are. i do not have a lot of knowledge on that particular issue, but i appreciate you raising it. you also raise the issue of making sure we have an adequate caregiving workforce that is accessible to families whose loved ones need care and that is also important. thank you very much for raising those critical issues. host: will is in canyon country, california. good morning. caller: thanks for taking my call. i have some issues with the whole food stamp program. i think they should make it more like a wic program where you get vouchers and the food that you need.

am i still on? host: yes you are. you're saying vouchers for the food stamps? caller: yes. i have some friends on food stamps, i know a lot of people on food stamps. when they go out and they buy groceries they are getting steak and all of this fish and expensive namebrand food and i make under $30,000. i do own a property with one rental but even with that i make under 30,000. i cannot afford to buy this luxury. i get the storebrand food and i barely ever buy a stake. it is sad that the working class does not quite get the benefits that the poor would get. here in california, anybody can get food stamps. if they make under $1000 or $2000, almost half of california's on food stamps. it is hard.

i know my brother works really hard and he has a family of five and he is above the limit and he can barely afford his health insurance he has to pay for. he cannot get food stamps. my older brother is struggling. with a lower income it seems likely get a lot of stuff. they get a lot of freebies. host: let's get a response. guest: i am sorry about the challenges your brother is facing. we hear every day from families across the country who because of really high housing costs, high childcare costs are struggling to make ends meet. that is not ok. on the issue of snap or food stamps it is important to acknowledge that benefits averaged out to about two dollars per person per meal and families have to make pretty hard to balance that out to buy the food they need.

there may be isolated instances of people buying steak but what we know from the data is that the most commonly purchased items are things like milk, bananas, grapes, pasta, some of the basic staples. for families those benefits are so important. we know even with snap a lot of families are running out of money for food are the end of the month because food costs can be high. one of the challenges about being limited in what people can buy is it adds a lot of extra costs in bureaucracy and red tape and makes the program harder to operate. one of the benefits of snap is its administrative fees are so low that the vast majority of money is going not to pay for program administration but to pay for benefits to the families that need them. host: you talked about

qualifying for food stamps. how does that work? guest: you have to have a relatively low income. the federal limit is 130% of poverty, which is about $30,000 a year for a family of four. states have some flexibility to align that limit with other anti-poverty programs. this is important in states like new york or california where the cost of living is so high. in those states you can have an income of up to 200% of the poverty level. host: let's talk to james ingredient, mississippi. you are food insecure? caller: as a police officer i was going to tell ms. davis that down here when i was a cop in alabama, the mothers would take the food stamps and sell them, take the money to the casino, and the kids would have nothing.

i've have seen on other occasions where a lady would go to sam's, stock up on meat come and go back to the housing project and sell the meat out of her house. i have seen that when i was a police officer. this fraud -- there is fraud in the food stamps, big time down in alabama and mississippi. that is all i have to say. guest: thank you for sharing your perspective. obviously committing fraud in any government program is not ok. we know that from the evidence the usda has the rate of fraud in the snap program is less than 1%. we want to address it where it is happening. it is not ok. those are dollars that should be used for their intended purpose. the vast majority of families on snap are hard-working, some

working two jobs and struggling to make ends meet and the benefits are so important to their ability to give the kids the best start in life. host: we have a post on x from theo who says shuttering the schools and making kids stay home with their parents reduced food insecurity 46% in your conclusion is to funnel more money into schools? please explain. guest: i am glad you asked that question because it is important to clarify. even though schools were closed and kids were not eating meals in the cafeteria congress came together in a bipartisan way to enact policies that provided families with a grocery benefit that was the value of those meals so they could continue to feed their kids at home. that was tremendously impactful. it also provided community organizations and schools with the flexibility to get meals to kids and families in ways that were convenient.

families could pickup up to two weeks worth of school breakfast and school lunch for their kids. many school districts in rural areas delivered meals to kids. food banks stepped up. snap benefits were temporarily increased. it was these investments and an expansion of the child tax credit which put additional dollars in the pockets of low income families for food that allowed us to drive down the rate of child food insecurity. the challenges that most of these investments have stopped and families are starting to face hunger in greater numbers. one in five children in the united states this year. host: ivanka in virginia. good morning -- yvonne in virginia. good morning. caller: i have more of a

statement than a question. i am starting to believe, after having worked with people over the years and seeing how communities work, it is that programs that tend to foster a lack of responsibility and a reliance on handouts being able to hold out your hand and get something for nothing are a fallacy. they do not work. they will continue to grow. there is no end to it. food insecurity and childhood hungry in this country is one of those problems.

we do not look to the parents as to why their children are hungry. why does your child come to school hungry? your responsibility is to feed your child. those questions should be answered. we should not be having this issue in this country on the large-scale we have. funneling money into programs and funneling food into the top of the issue and not solving it at the base of the issue is just going to continue to have the issue grow and it will continue to funnel one more problem into a system that is built on a system of keeping certain segments of our population down.

host: any comment, lisa? guest: i agree with you that we should not be having this problem. it is entirely solvable. i've spent a lot of time going across the states and i've talked to a lot of parents. i have not met one parent that is not doing everything they can to feed their children. what i have heard is the challenges of unaffordable childcare in many states. childcare for infant costs more than in-state tuition at a college. i have heard about how i -- i've heard about high housing costs. where i am from housing costs are soaring. i have heard about the lack of transportation the fact that many of the jobs are low-paying and all of us would agree we want families to have an

opportunity and a good paying job and not have to rely on government programs and we should all be working towards that. answer to getting kids the nutrition they need is to address underlying issues that mean so many families are struggling. the majority of families in america, an unexpected expense of just $400 can tip them from getting by into facing food insecurity and not having a way forward. host: tony is in anniston, alabama on our line for food insecurity. good morning. caller: good morning and happy thanksgiving to both of you. i was born so far we did not even have christmas, i have known people on welfare the

whole time. my mom, we were on welfare for three years. my dad did not do nothing. my mom went back to school and got her masters to work in the welfare system. she had her arm broken twice because people said give me my money. people will not give up the benefits. i had a brother on social security who would not go off it for nothing because it is $400. it is a government program that keeps them poor. i started cutting grass when i was 10 years old. i have watched the fraud with the government. it is to keep the people poor ended line and begging for more. there is a guy i worked with who had a giant lunch bucket and i said how can you afford that, that was the supervisor. he said i go to the store and people buy my groceries for me,

i pay 25 to $.50 on the dollars and people fade for it and they give him cash. others sell it to drug dealers. in wisconsin walker ended it because people were calling up saying i lost my card. the government never checks. when we were going up we had one part, they came to our house to check to make sure we were not extracting. the people now days, if you see them in the store, the full parts are the people with food stamps. i saw a couple two weeks ago she was crying with her kid and her husband they cannot afford any meat. the people working cannot get ahead and they are paying for all of the other people. these programs are good. i believe in helping people out. this is america. the need to put a limit on it. a year on welfare or your on public housing. they live their whole lives on it. they need to have their share.

if they keep saying how the american people are so generous, then have a gofundme page for food for housing and see how much the people really can afford. they take all of our money and give it away to people who never want to work. this is crazy. thank you. host: go ahead, lisa. guest: i appreciate your perspective and it sounds like you and your mom are pretty amazing people. one thing that is misunderstood about families on snap is the vast majority of them are working. many of them are working more than one job. their wages are low, the work is seasonal, but they are working. it is easy to focus on a case of bad actors. that is not the reality for the

families that are on snap. i agree with you. every person on snap i have talked to agree with you that people want to work. they want to be able to feed their kids without having to rely on government programs. if we want to address moving people from poverty and food insecurity out of it we have to look at making sure jobs are available and people have transportation, that they can access childcare if their kids are young, that housing costs are not such an impediment they have to choose between filling up the tank to get their job or paying their rent. you also raise an important point. there are so many families struggling to get by that or just a little bit over the threshold for these programs. as we think about all of the families facing hardship in this country we need to think about

having bipartisan policies that make it easier to get by. we know what some of those are. there is lot of evidence and research that shows the impact of expanding the child tax credit, the importance of snap benefits and school meals. snap benefits equate to just two dollars per person per meal. many of the families are still struggling to get by on those benefits. host: we have a question on x that says supermarkets know what people buy with their snap benefit cards. does the government ask them to share that information so we know what type of food is being purchased? guest: guest: this probably goes a little bit beyond my expertise. i know the retail sector has expressed different concerns about releasing a lot of data for a competitive edge. there has been some data released and we know from that

that the things people on snap are buying are similar to what other americans are purchasing. the fda tracks the healthy eating index and it shows that the diets of snap consumers, what they are consuming, are very similar to the non-snap consumers. host: bob in maryland. good morning. caller: caller: good morning. i've been listening to the last few callers and the comments they been talking about, and i think with the minimal amount of administration that is overseeing these programs, i realize it is a small percentage but i think they need to increase it and get auditors out here because i have worked in low poverty, low income housing areas for years in the washington metro area. i am telling you, there is so

much fraud going on with snap. they are buying steaks and redbull drinks and the kids are crying. i think there is no auditing going on it it is a program -- host: we don't have a good connection anymore but i think we got your point about the types of food being bought with food stamps and if there are any classes or education on nutrition? guest: that is a great point. food stamps does have a pretty thorough quality control process. people have to verify their income. there been recent investments in the last 10 years on improving that focus on quality control.

one part of snap that does not get a lot of attention is snap nutrition ed and that helps classes that help families shop for and prepare food to purchase food on a budget. there a lot of private programs as well. making sure that families have the resources they need to make sure their kids are well-nourished is important. it is also important to make sure they have access to skills and training to make the dollars go as far as possible. host: mike is in huntington beach, california. good morning. caller: good morning. what about the expiration date on food? i used to work in a grocery store and i cannot believe the expiration dates. the food is still good if it is packaged or canned, then you go out to the dumpster and there is hundreds of dollars of still good food in the dumpster. that food can be given to the

children, it can be given to poor people. i do not understand why there cannot be any use for the expiration date food. that is all my comment is about. guest: you bring up a really important point. expiration dates can be confusing. sometimes we see best buy, freshest by. a lot of times those are not the real expiration dates. i think our food retailers want to make sure they are being safe. a lot of the food as it gets close to the expiration date gets donated to local food banks and programs which is great. there are steps congress can take to clarify this issue and make it easier for consumers to understand so that more of that food is not going to the landfill and being wasted but going into the hands of the folks that need at. host: lonnie in north carolina.

good morning. caller: good morning in happy thanksgiving. give me a little bit of time. i don't know how people talk about fraudulent food stamps and people buying steaks. these are some jealous people. in my neighborhood you have a redline. they redline for me to fail. then they flood my neighborhood with all types of drugs. i'm not a racist person but it has to be a white man that has something to do with it. then they flood my neighborhood with weapons with easy access to my children. then they call and say your eating steaks. are they auditing people with food stamps but so afraid of auditing people with a lot of money. this is where we find the fraud. we have people in congress killing unemployment benefits and what in the courts right now

for fraudulent real estate. tell me what we go get the irs and that we do not have to worry about those snap programs or food stamps when we get the people who are doing it. this is ridiculous. auditing people. the policeman who said he saw selling stakes, he did not tell us if they were convicted were not for fraudulent activity, or did he buy himself some. thank you so much c-span. host: any comments on that? guest: there were a lot of issues raised there. one thing i want to make sure we focus on is lack of access to healthy nutritious food and a lot of neighborhoods. i have been in a lot of urban communities that have been the victim of redlining and a loss of investment and you can go to the corner minimart and it is hard to find the food people need and you can end up paying

triple or quadruple for a banana. those of us that have access to other supermarkets had. that is also something to be addressed. it is impossible to look at the issue of food insecurity for kids without looking at the issues that drive it. many times those issues are rooted in systemic underinvestment in neighborhoods and racist policies, a lack of affordable housing, of transportation, childcare. if we want to end food insecurity we need to be investing in addressing underlying issues and helping families get back on their feet. there were really important points that collar raised. host: teresa in cambridge, maryland. food insecure line. good morning. caller: good morning. my comments are similar to many of the others that have been set.

i do not know where the usda is getting their numbers from, because the amount of fraud with food stamps is ridiculous. drug dealers have people's foodstamp cards and the kids have no food. parents post on facebook and other places they have food stamps to sell. host: you are on the food insecure line. are you facing food insecurity? caller: now. -- no. but i know people who get food stamps and their children are hungry every day. host: we address that. anything you would like to add on that? guest: i feel like we have talked about that issue. host: we have. caller: did -- host: kathy in

philadelphia. caller: i want to make a comment about this government. they can find money for war. we spend about $120 billion. how does that help your program? it is sickening to me that we are feeding illegal immigrants, we are feeding them food than they tell me it is not culturally appropriate so they throw it in the trash. this has got to stop. america has to start helping the people of america before we help other people of the world. i have had enough as a taxpayer. host: what do you think? how much food of the food programs in the united states is going to illegal immigrants? guest: programs like snap are not available to illegal immigrants. there are many charitable programs that serve anybody it

is important for everyone to be nourished. we do not want anyone to go hungry. host: as far as taxpayer money going to illegal immigrants? guest: they are not eligible for the programs so they should not be getting benefits. i think there's a lot of attention and a lot of misperception about where food is coming from and who is benefiting from programs. the point that sticks out for me is that the united states does have the resources to prioritize feeding our kids and making sure every child has a chance to grow up healthy and strong and thrive and succeed. those investments are not just important at filling that child's belly, but they are important to our nation. if we have a well educated workforce we can be more globally competitive. our businesses need that. we know that making sure that kids and families are getting

the food they need lowers health care costs. it means that schools are less focused on discipline and kids are not leaving class because they are in the nurses office. they graduate and they succeed. i cannot think of any investment with a stronger return and this is so important. host: and your website is nokidhungry.org. if someone wants to help, what can they do? guest: there are a variety of ways you can engage and we list them on our website. people can donate. we also hope people can use their voice to raise awareness about the significance of childhood hunger as well as the solution. there are opportunities to weigh in with congress on policies. one of the things about this

issue that is also important to realize is there is not a single member of congress that thinks childhood hunger is a good thing. we see democrats and republicans come together to make critical investments to address food insecurity. we need to continue to create that environment, especially when they come back and have to tackle keeping the government open and funded again. it is important to make sure that every wic almond baby that needs the program can access it. host: mike is in brooklyn, maryland on our food insecure line. caller: a couple of comments. i wanted to comment on the snap program and how there is been an effort by certain republicans to totally abolish the food stamp program. there is an ulterior motive behind that because i do not think people know that the food stamp budget comes from the

department of agriculture budget. if those representatives who represent the corn belt, if they can abolish the food stamp program money goes towards the farm bill to subsidize their constituency. in regards to foodstamp fraud, although it is a problem, when i was in my program, i wrote a proposal to governor corbett on away i thought would abolish foodstamp fraud. just like they have report with states that suspend your license come issue a photo id foodstamp card. in the case of a handicapped person, one to the beneficiary at one to its proxy. foodstamp fraud benefits big business.

they benefit the supermarket chains that know it exists stop they are not concerned with foodstamp fraud because that is a lion share of their profit margin. they get a reciprocal reporting agency, a reciprocal database that holds those photo ids and report state-by-state. you would eliminate welfare fraud in general. host: are you facing food insecurity? caller: i've experienced food insecurity. i'm a disabled veteran. i have resources available to me that most common persons does not have. president obama had a federal mandate to end homelessness and food insecurity among veterans. i can go to any v-8 in the world and tell -- i can go to any va

in the world and they will see that my pantry is stocked. guest: thank you for your service to our nation. i think there is a lot in your comments. one thing i want to emphasize is the rate of fraud in food stamps is very low and the usda and federal government have been making bipartisan investments and taking more steps to improve quality control and to lower it. i think sometimes getting focused on a story that someone hears or sees in the paper about fraud takes us away from the more important point, which is that one in five kids in america is facing hunger. that is just unacceptable. programs like snap, like school meals, the child tax credit, have long been studied. they have evidence that proves

the reduce food insecurity for kids and also helps reduce child poverty. no matter our political leanings, and i know your callers run the spectrum. it is something we can all agree on. we need to come together as a nation and make sure we are ending childhood hunger. we have driven the rates down significantly through some of the snap problems -- these snap policies and we need to get the job done. it is not ok that kids are facing hunger. host: one more call. ted in new hampshire. caller: i have a problem. i notice at a lot of times at shopping centers if we have a power outage they get rid of all of this food, they throw it in the dumpsters. they should have some kind of station where all of this food can go to where they have generators to preserve it and save it.

this country has become a nation of dependency like south america or china to grow our food. i know we have weather conditions here like trout and all of this. we need to be more self-reliant stop my father worked for an academy and what the students do not eat they throughout stuff that was not even touched and i said why don't you bring those to senior centers and let them have it in their answer was they could be allergic. how much of an allergy is there if you are starving or hungry and your fridge is empty? host: last comment? guest: i don't know the supermarket policies on dealing with food in a power outage, but

i know that in schools a lot of them have focused on reducing that waste you mentioned and so they have put it in sharing tables where kids that do not want the banana can put it in kids that need that food can take it. what we want to do is make sure that as much of the food that is currently going to waste that is safe and healthy and can be used to nourish kids and seniors and families is recovered and directed to that purpose. that alone is not going to end hunger. we also need to make sure we have the right policies in place and also that we are designing these programs in a way the pron a way that give communities flexibility to meet kids where they are. so one bright light after this heavy conversation is that one policy that worked well in the pandemic is the flexibility to

not make kids come to a site every day to eat their meal in the summer, helped in rural areas, and it is only because of strong bipartisanship, led by the representatives from arkansas into michigan. if we create the public will, we have the solutions, whether it is policy or program implementation. we need to rally to implement and expand those solutions so we can reach all the kids who really need help. who need three healthy meals a day. host: ok, lisa davis, thank you for joining us. guest: thank you for having me. host: that is our time for the show. thanks to everyone who joined us. we will see you tomorrow morning right here on c-span. have a great thanksgiving, everybody. ♪

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