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consumption of macronutrients
and/or micronutrients. Malnutrition
includes undernutrition and
overnutrition as well as micronutrient
deficiencies.
Measure of America: A project of
the Social Science Research Council,
similar to the human development
index used by the United Nations
Development Program, measuring
well-being and opportunity in the
United Sates. A score is given based
on an aggregate measure of health,
education, and standard of living.
Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs): A global agreement officially
adopted at the United Nations in the
year 2000. The goals serve as a road
map for development outcomes to be
achieved by 2015.
Monetary policy: Actions undertaken
by a central bank, such as the Federal
Reserve, to influence the availability
and cost of money and credit to help
promote national economic goals.
National debt: The total outstanding
debt obligations of the federal
government. The value of the debt is
measured in terms of the amount of
securities issued by the Treasury and
other federal agencies.
government and that have primarily
humanitarian or cooperative rather
than commercial objectives.
Nutrition-sensitive interventions:
Interventions designed to address
the underlying determinants of good
nutrition (which include household
food security, care for mothers and
children and primary health care
services and sanitation) but not
necessarily having nutrition as the
predominant goal.
Poverty: The lack of sufficient money
or resources to provide the basic
needs of survival for oneself and one’s
family. The international poverty line is
an income equivalent to $1.25 per day.
In the United State, poverty thresholds
vary according to family size. In 2014,
a family of four is in poverty with
annual income below $24,000.
Productivity growth: The ability to
produce more with the same or less
input. The U.S. economy has been
able to produce more goods and
services over time, not by requiring
a proportional increase of labor time,
but by making production more
efficient.
No Kid Hungry®: A campaign led by
anti-hunger organization Share Our
Strength to end child hunger in the
United States by 2015.
Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN)
movement: An international
movement uniting people—from
governments, civil society, the United
Nations, donors, businesses and
researchers—in a collective effort
to improve nutrition. The partners
collaborate to implement programs
with shared nutrition goals and
mobilize resources to effectively
scale up nutrition, with a core focus
on empowering women.
Nongovernmental organizations
(NGOs): Groups and institutions that
are entirely or largely independent of
Second Chance Act: Federal
legislation that provides grants to
states and local governments to
New Deal: A set of economic
assistance and safety net programs
implemented by President Franklin
D. Roosevelt in response to the Great
Depression.
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promote the safe and successful
reintegration into the community
of individuals who have been
incarcerated.
Social safety nets: Government
policies and charitable programs
designed to ensure basic needs are
met among low-income, disabled and
other vulnerable social groups.
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