Today, Governor Gavin Newsom released his May Revision Budget<\/a>, updating his vision for the 2021-22 State Budget that begins July 1. The State is reporting approximately $100 billion in available surplus between the substantial state revenues, as well as federal funds thanks to the American Rescue Plan by President Biden and Vice President Harris. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We thank the Governor for several important policies in the Budget Revision, including key strides toward universal school meals, restoring SSP grants, Health For All, the basic needs of college students, and other important priorities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We must be clear, however, that much more is needed to address the scale and magnitude of hunger that currently impacts 8 million Californians. There are no new investments in the emergency food system that continues to serve record community demand for food. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n And, the Budget must not miss this landmark opportunity to achieve permanent school meals for all, finally restore SSP grants after a decade of cuts, provide assistance to those excluded from federal aid, and other policies that address hunger and the root cause of poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Especially given the State\u2019s budget condition, we must learn the lessons of the Great Recession, making the investments now to prevent a decade of hardship<\/a> and address the hunger crisis in communities across California. <\/p>\n\n\n\n No one should go hungry in our great state. Yet food insecurity remains more than double<\/a> the pre-pandemic levels<\/a>, with deep inequities for low-income communities of color (an astonishing 35.5% Black families with children are food insecure). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Nowhere is this seen more acutely than the long lines at food banks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A survey of CAFB member food banks showed impact of the pandemic, between 2019 and 2020:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n California Association of Food Banks specifically calls for the following investments, and applauds the leadership of the legislative champions for each of these critical issues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bolster the emergency food network through COVID-19 & beyond<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n CAFB appreciates the steps taken in the May Revision on the broader food and anti-poverty safety net, but calls for much more in the final Budget Act:<\/p>\n\n\n\n We thank the Senate for keying many of CAFB\u2019s emergency food, school meal, SSI, and other priorities in the Build Back Boldly framework<\/a>, and the Assembly for their strong budget blueprint<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe applaud the Governor for recognizing the ongoing crisis of hunger and hardship created by COVID-19, and more needs to be done in this budget to combat that crisis. Food banks know first-hand that this elevated need will last for years, and we call on the Governor and Legislature to make substantial, additional investments in the emergency food system and safety net programs to create a long-term impact. Hungry parents can\u2019t save for a rainy day if their children don\u2019t have enough to eat, and we need the State to maximize this historic surplus to work towards a hunger-free future for California.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\u653f\u5e9c\u4e8b\u52a1\u4e3b\u7ba1Andrew Cheyne<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n We call on the Governor, Administration, and Legislature to prioritize addressing record hunger in the 2021 Budget Act. We look forward to working with all stakeholders in the final phase of the budget process to enact these critical policies.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Much More Needed to Address Record Food Insecurity Driven by COVID-19 Crisis Today, Governor Gavin Newsom released his May Revision […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[281,248,150,13],"class_list":["post-15694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-statement","tag-childhood-hunger","tag-covid-19","tag-state-budget","tag-state-policy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15694"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15722,"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15694\/revisions\/15722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cafoodbanks.org\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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