President Biden's Strategy To End U.S. Hunger Includes More Benefits
Newsy
President Biden is hosting a conference this week on hunger, nutrition and health, the first by the White House since 1969.
The Biden administration is laying out its plan to meet an ambitious goal of ending hunger in the U.S. by 2030, including expanding monthly benefits that help low-income Americans buy food.
The administration, in a plan released Tuesday, is also seeking to increase healthy eating and physical activity so that fewer people are afflicted with diabetes, obesity, hypertension and other diet-related diseases. It said it would work to expand Medicaid and Medicare access to obesity counseling and nutrition.
"The consequences of food insecurity and diet-related diseases are significant, far reaching, and disproportionately impact historically underserved communities," President Biden wrote in a memo outlining the White House strategy. "Yet, food insecurity and diet-related diseases are largely preventable, if we prioritize the health of the nation."
