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    Senior Nutrition Programs Get $30M More In Funding Next Year. Meals On Wheels America CEO Says That'

    Meals on Wheels is serving 21 million fewer meals today than in 2005 because of relatively flat funding from Congress.
    Dec 20, 2019 4 minutes
    Meals On Wheels is serving 21 million fewer meals today than in 2005 because of relatively flat funding from Congress.(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

    Tucked away in the $1.4 trillion budget deal that Congress sent to President Trump on Friday is a $30 million increase in funding for a small but noteworthy program: senior nutrition.

    The bipartisan deal allocated an additional $15 million to both congregate and home-delivered meals, bringing the total funding for senior nutrition under the Older Americans Act to $936.8 million. But that's still not enough to meet the needs of more than 9 million seniors at risk of going hungry in the U.S.

    Meals on Wheels, the network of local delivery programs that turn those federal dollars into meals, serves some 220 million

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