This will probably be seen as hateful and narrow-minded, but I have to ask anyway. How can there be a need to fund a ‘Federal Child Nutrition Program’ to feed ‘underprivileged’ children in Minnesota?
Poor kids get at least two meals a day as part of the school-lunch program and many schools send poor kids home on the weekends with ‘back packs’ so they don’t starve while dependent on their parents to feed them. If the schools are on summer or Wuhan break, they bus meals out to everyone under 18. Then there is the Food Stamp/SNAP program that is put in place to see that poor families have enough to eat.
And for those who run through their month-long benefit in two weeks there are Food Banks that distribute food as well as other charities.
How is it possible that so many children fall between the cracks that $200,000,000 is needed, in just one state, to keep them from going hungry?
It sounds like there were some changes made during the pandemic (if schools were closed for instance).