Eligible Children Still Missing Summer Meals
More than 3 million U.S. children from low-income families received meals at recreation centers, schools, tutoring programs, and other sites last summer, but a gap in services left millions more unserved and more than $200 million in resources unspent, concludes a study of federal summer-nutrition programs.
"Hunger Doesn't Take a Vacation," a report by the Washington-based Food Research and Action Center, or FRAC, assesses the progress of two summer- nutrition initiatives: the Summer Food Service Program and the National School Lunch Program. The programs are financed by the Food and Nutrition Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and administered by the states.
The study found that roughly one in five—22 per 100—of the 14.9 million children who ate free or reduced-price meals on a typical day during the school year were served by those programs...
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