An important resource for fighting child hunger is set to expire this month, Karina Piser (France, 2017-2019) writes in Mother Jones. The Pandemic-EBT program, which has provided food-insecure families with money to buy groceries since March, will cease operations unless renewed by Congress before September 30.
The program’s closure would deal a blow to millions of children who are longer receiving free lunches at school due to the 19 Covid pandemic, she writes.
The story was also published by the Food and Environment Reporting Network.
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