Protecting Programs

for Low-Income People:

A Circle of Protection
DOMESTIC
Food assistance
• SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly food stamps), helps more
than 43 million Americans put food on the table every month.
• The National School Lunch Program serves 20.4 million low-income children.
• The School Breakfast Program serves 9.7 million low-income children.

Tax credits and income support

• In 2009, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) lifted an estimated 6.6 million people
out of poverty, including about 3.3 million children.
• In 2009, the Child Tax Credit (CTC) lifted an estimated 2.3 million people out of poverty,

Yesenia Garcia
including about 1.3 million children.
• In the 2007 tax year (the most recent year for which we have data), nearly 25 million
working families and individuals filed for EITC.

Low-income child care and early education

Low-income health care

Low-income education and training

Preventing child abuse

Rick Reinhard
INTERNATIONAL
International food assistance and emergency response
• More than 30 million people receive assistance from USAID’s Food for Peace program
(P.L. 480 Title II).
• The McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program
serves 5 million of the world’s poorest children.

Sustainable international development

• 42 million African children went to school for the first time between 1999 and 2007,
thanks in part to debt relief and development assistance for education.

Global health

International poverty-focused financial services

Margaret W. Nea

International refugee assistance and post-conflict support

Bread for the World (www.bread.org) is a collective Christian voice

urging our nation’s decision makers to end hunger at home and abroad.