Food For Massachusetts

Everyone in Massachusetts deserves access to nourishing food that feels like home. In the 2026 legislative session, the Food for All Massachusetts coalition is focused on passing the Anti-Hunger Package: a set of policies designed to reduce food insecurity in Massachusetts, protect SNAP, help millions of people in Massachusetts and work to end hunger at its roots.

 

Hunger in Massachusetts is getting worse as food assistance is cut

Congress recently made the biggest cut to food assistance programs in history, making it even harder for our families to put food on the table. Hundreds of thousands of people in Massachusetts are at risk of losing food assistance due to H.R. 1.

 

These cuts harm communities already facing heightened barriers to food, including:

• Immigrants

• Older adults

• Parents of teenagers

• Rural communities

• Unhoused families

• Former foster youth

• Veterans

 

SNAP (formerly known as food stamps) is our country’s largest and most effective anti-hunger program. H.R. 1 cuts SNAP funding by 30%, which will make already staggering rates of hunger in Massachusetts even worse. With the rising cost of living across our state, too many families are forced to make impossible decisions between buying groceries and other essentials like medicine.

 

• 1 in 6 kids in Massachusetts live in households that struggle to afford food.

• Food pantry visits in Massachusetts reached more than 2.9 million last year — a 51% increase since 2023.

• Food banks across Massachusetts are stretched to the limit, with rising rates of hunger and diminishing supply of food.

 

We’re all better off when everyone can access nourishing food that feels like home. When people can afford to buy the food they need, kids succeed in school, families are healthy and local businesses flourish.

 

We can act now to help end hunger in Massachusetts

 

The Food for All Massachusetts coalition is advocating for the Anti-Hunger Package, which will:

• Make sure all kids in Massachusetts can eat breakfast and lunch at school, no matter where they live

• Protect SNAP for people in Massachusetts to sustain our most effective anti-hunger program

• Provide relief for immigrants, refugees, asylees and humanitarian parolees who have lost SNAP eligibility

• Fund Massachusetts’s Food Assistance Network so it can keep food flowing to the growing number of people experiencing hunger

 

Please join us in urging our lawmakers to pass the Anti-Hunger Package in 2026 and help ensure all of us have the food we need to thrive.

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