Our Work | FAMILY ECONOMIC MOBILITY
Family Economic Mobility
It Takes More than Food To End Hunger
We can’t permanently end childhood hunger in the United States without addressing its root causes.
That’s why we’ve expanded the work of our No Kid Hungry campaign to include programs that help families, especially single mothers.
Millions of children in the United States are being raised by single mothers, who are working every day to help their children grow up healthy and strong. But rates of childhood hunger are high in these households.
Single mothers are the primary caregivers and the primary earners for their families. But for too many of them, low wages make it hard to afford food, housing, childcare and other basic needs. Helping them become more economically mobile is a crucial part of ending childhood hunger.
Our Goals
The long-term goal of our family economic mobility work is to transform systems so single mothers achieve financial stability for themselves and their children.
In pursuit of this goal, we are committed to achieving three outcomes:
Childhood Hunger
We will work to increase federal and state resources for single mothers and their children facing food insecurity.
Root Causes
Continue our efforts to increase durable income and wages for single mothers and dismantle structural barriers to reduce costs associated with accessing nutritious foods.
Movement Building
Begin engagement with, and inclusion of, diverse stakeholders to advance single-mother household food security and family economic mobility.
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
James Baldwin