Hunger Program’s Slow Start Leaves Millions of Children Waiting

An emergency effort to help feed the millions of children who would normally get their meals at school has been mired in logistical delays. Two months after the program passed in Congress, child hunge..

Child hunger is soaring, but two months after Congress approved billions to replace school meals, only 15 percent of eligible children had received benefits. 

WASHINGTON — As child hunger soars to levels without modern precedent, an emergency program Congress created two months ago has reached only a small fraction of the 30 million children it was intended to help. More read on The New York Times

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