{"id":4434,"date":"2025-09-03T15:08:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/?post_type=resources&#038;p=4434"},"modified":"2025-11-13T01:03:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T01:03:56","slug":"brief-revised-cacfp-rates-dont-make-a-dent","status":"publish","type":"resources","link":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/_resources\/brief-revised-cacfp-rates-dont-make-a-dent\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief: Revised CACFP Rates Don\u2019t Make a Dent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At a time when children and providers are going hungry and federal food aid is shrinking, food costs pose a significant risk to provider sustainability and the wellbeing of children that they serve. The new brief underscores how the current increases in CACFP reimbursement fail to grapple with the broader, structural challenges facing HBCC providers: rising food costs, inadequate reimbursement rates, burdened policy systems, and shifting eligibility criteria. All of which leave puts provider sustainability at risk and impacts child wellbeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Home-Grown-Revised-CACFP-Rates-Dont-Make-a-Dent-Brief.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">Read Brief<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new brief underscores how the current increases in CACFP reimbursement fail to grapple with the challenges facing HBCC providers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4435,"template":"","categories":[12],"resource-categories":[63,57],"class_list":["post-4434","resources","type-resources","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources","resource-categories-cacfp-hunger","resource-categories-finances-sustainability-compensation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources\/4434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/resources"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4434"},{"taxonomy":"resource-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homegrownchildcare.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-categories?post=4434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}