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Where are the pro lifers at? Rural children are hungry.

Tom Facts

Council Member


“That’s a really big deal,” says Lisa Davis, senior vice president of No Kid Hungry. “Since August, we've been hearing from school districts across the country – urban, suburban and rural, but particularly rural – that because of food price inflation and supply-chain disruptions, they were having food vendors cancel contracts at the last minute. And when they went out to find a new contract, the prices were really, really high. So their costs have gone up exponentially across the board.”

Perhaps most acutely, Davis says that she’s fielding frantic calls from school districts and community organizations concerned that they won’t be able to provide meals this summer at all without the waiver extension.

“We’re hearing from school districts and community organizations across the country that if the waivers are not renewed they are going to have to dramatically scale back or even stop their summer meal service,” Davis says. “They just won't have the capacity and the funds and the flexibility to keep them going. And we know that summer is the hungriest time of year for a lot of kids when they’re out of school and the school meals aren’t there. So this is a real problem.”
 
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