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Promoting Skills and Training for Low-Income Workers

March 23, 2015 Cecilia Muñoz, Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council and Jeff Zients, Director of the National Economic Council and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy

Cross-posted from the White House Council of Economic Advisers blog: Last year, the President directed Vice President Biden to lead a review of federal job training programs in order to identify and implement steps to make these programs more “job-driven” and responsive to the needs of employers...

USDA Results Food and Nutrition

FNS Uses Research to Protect Taxpayer Dollars

April 30, 2014 Rich Lucas, Acting Deputy Administrator for Policy Support

During the month of April we will take a closer look at USDA’s Groundbreaking Research for a Revitalized Rural America, highlighting ways USDA researchers are improving the lives of Americans in ways you might never imagine, while ensuring that our program are effective and well managed. For Federal...

Food and Nutrition

On the One Year Anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, USDA Looks Ahead

October 29, 2013 Wayne Maloney, Office of Communications

All this week, Americans are pausing to reflect on the devastation caused when Hurricane Sandy slammed ashore on the eastern seaboard. Over 160 people died, property was damaged, lives were disrupted, families were torn apart and jobs were affected. USDA helped the recovery effort in a number of...

Conservation Food and Nutrition Forestry Animals Plants

Detroit’s Eastern Market: A Food Hub in a Food Desert

December 17, 2010 Debbie Tropp, Branch Chief, Farmers Market and Direct Market Research Branch, AMS

Look up Wayne County, Michigan, home to Detroit, in USDA’s Food Environment Atlas and it is obvious that local residents have some significant challenges in accessing healthful food. An alarmingly high number of households that lack a car in Wayne County are located further than one mile from the...

Food and Nutrition Farming

Detroit’s Eastern Market: A Food Hub in a Food Desert

December 17, 2010 Debbie Tropp, Branch Chief, Farmers Market and Direct Market Research Branch, AMS

Look up Wayne County, Michigan, home to Detroit, in USDA’s Food Environment Atlas and it is obvious that local residents have some significant challenges in accessing healthful food. An alarmingly high number of households that lack a car in Wayne County are located further than one mile from the...

Food and Nutrition Farming

USDA Celebrates First Anniversary of the Historic White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health

September 28, 2023 Stacy Dean, Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services

One year after the historic White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health held on September 28, 2022, the USDA Food and Nutrition Service continues accelerating progress on the conference’s goals to end hunger, improve healthy eating and physical activity, and reduce diet-related diseases...

Equity Food and Nutrition Nutrition Security

FACT SHEET: Update on USDA Activities to Contain the COVID-19 Pandemic

WASHINGTON, Mar. 10, 2021 — In January 2021, President Biden released the National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness. The plan is driven by science, data, and public health to improve the effectiveness of our nation’s fight against COVID-19 and to restore trust...

Coronavirus

USDA Approves New Phase of Temporary Puerto Rico Nutrition Assistance to Support Disaster Recovery

Para una versión en español de esta nota de prensa (for a Spanish version of this release): www.fns.usda.gov/pressrelease/usda-010419-es WASHINGTON, July 10, 2019 – Puerto Rico residents continuing to recover from 2017’s hurricanes could be eligible for increased nutrition assistance funded by...

Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Opens USDA Farmers Market for the 21st Season

Washington, May 6, 2016 — Today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack opened the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farmers Market for its 21st season and announced a new partnership with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the General Services Administration (GSA) to promote gardens, farmers...

ERS Makes FoodAPS Purchase and Nutrition Data Easier to Access

November 17, 2016 Mark Denbaly, Economic Research Service

USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) has developed a unique treasure trove of data from a survey on food purchases and acquisitions by U.S. households - USDA’s National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey FoodAPS. To protect individual survey respondents’ privacy, access to the data had...

Research and Science