Sunday, February 25, 2024

Texas passes on $450 million summer lunch program for low-income families

This awful news came out this past week. Terrible optic. Terrible reality. Texas just always want to be Texas, including when it comes to providing for children and families in need.  This is so sad. Why not do everything possible to help Texas school children? There were earlier efforts to address this by the organization, Every Texan, as follows:

Geez, there is so much food insecurity and 3.8 million kids are eligible for the programWhy this lack of will? We "throw money" at the border. Why not do so here? 

-Angela Valenzuela


Texas passes on $450 million summer lunch program for low-income families

The USDA estimates the families of 3.8 million children could have received $120 per child to cover summer lunches if the state participated in the new $2.5 billion program launching this summer. Texas is one of 15 states opting out.




Credit:
Laura Skelding, Texas Tribune

This year 35 states will participate in a $2.5 billion federal nutrition program that will help low-income parents buy groceries for their children when free school meals are unavailable during the summer months.

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