Child Hunger Summit planned for Wednesday and House Ag hearing featuring EPA administrator postponed.

Jacqui Fatka, Policy editor

January 26, 2016

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On Wednesday, Jan. 27, the White House will host a convening with families, academics, practitioners, advocates, religious leaders, and federal, state, and local officials to discuss the persistence and effects of hunger in America with a specific focus on children.

The panel will feature secretary of agriculture Tom Vilsack and assistant to the president and director of the Domestic Policy Council Cecilia Muñoz.

The White House said in a statement the panel will focus on building on the Administration’s ongoing commitment to increasing opportunity, participants will discuss the impact of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and other domestic nutrition programs in reducing food insecurity and poverty, as well as in improving long-term health, education, and economic outcomes.

The event will be live-streamed from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Visit www.whitehouse.gov/live to tune in.

Previously the House Agriculture Committee had scheduled a hearing Tuesday considering the impacts of the Environmental Protection Agency’s actions on the rural economy. Due to the snowstorm closing down the government, the hearing has been postponed.  

Agricultural groups will also be participating in a number of meetings with various Cuba coalitions and work groups to continue developing an advocacy and outreach strategy for 2016. The coalitions planning a press event on Cuba on Feb. 10 in Washington, D.C. 

About the Author(s)

Jacqui Fatka

Policy editor, Farm Futures

Jacqui Fatka grew up on a diversified livestock and grain farm in southwest Iowa and graduated from Iowa State University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communications, with a minor in agriculture education, in 2003. She’s been writing for agricultural audiences ever since. In college, she interned with Wallaces Farmer and cultivated her love of ag policy during an internship with the Iowa Pork Producers Association, working in Sen. Chuck Grassley’s Capitol Hill press office. In 2003, she started full time for Farm Progress companies’ state and regional publications as the e-content editor, and became Farm Futures’ policy editor in 2004. A few years later, she began covering grain and biofuels markets for the weekly newspaper Feedstuffs. As the current policy editor for Farm Progress, she covers the ongoing developments in ag policy, trade, regulations and court rulings. Fatka also serves as the interim executive secretary-treasurer for the North American Agricultural Journalists. She lives on a small acreage in central Ohio with her husband and three children.

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