For too many kids, school is the only place they can be guaranteed a
good meal every day – a situation that is sure to get worse as more
families get squeezed by skyrocketing prices on food and gas and rising
unemployment.
In summer, though, those kids are not in school
and so aren’t getting the nutrition they need. During the summer, fewer
than one in five get the free or reduced price lunches they are
entitled to year round.
School officials in many cities find
ways to get kids to come to school during the summer just so they can
be fed, and parks and recreation summer programs and church groups also
help pick up the slack.
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