12-03-2023, 04:42 PM
By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY and ARLEIGH RODGERS
yesterday
PHOENIX (AP) — America’s schools say kids are hungry — just as pandemic-era benefit programs have lapsed. There is growing concern about the effects on kids’ ability to learn.
Congress temporarily made school meals free to all American schoolkids, but since that ended last fall, the need has only seemed to grow.
Soaring food prices are adding strains on families who are seeing reductions in multiple kinds of financial assistance. One federal program that ends this month had given nearly 30 million Americans extra food stamps during the pandemic.
School cafeterias typically don’t turn away a hungry kid, but debts for unpaid school meals have been rising — showing the level of need, and raising questions about how schools will keep feeding everyone, without federal money to do it.
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More than 34 million people, including 9 million children, in the United States are food insecure, according to the U. S. Department of Agriculture
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Children in such households are more likely to struggle academically and repeat grade levels, among other challenges
https://apnews.com/article/free-school-l...6cc05c622f
yesterday
PHOENIX (AP) — America’s schools say kids are hungry — just as pandemic-era benefit programs have lapsed. There is growing concern about the effects on kids’ ability to learn.
Congress temporarily made school meals free to all American schoolkids, but since that ended last fall, the need has only seemed to grow.
Soaring food prices are adding strains on families who are seeing reductions in multiple kinds of financial assistance. One federal program that ends this month had given nearly 30 million Americans extra food stamps during the pandemic.
School cafeterias typically don’t turn away a hungry kid, but debts for unpaid school meals have been rising — showing the level of need, and raising questions about how schools will keep feeding everyone, without federal money to do it.
......
More than 34 million people, including 9 million children, in the United States are food insecure, according to the U. S. Department of Agriculture
......
Children in such households are more likely to struggle academically and repeat grade levels, among other challenges
https://apnews.com/article/free-school-l...6cc05c622f