The Washington Post reports:
The Obama administration will announce new plans Wednesday to launch a pilot program aimed at increasing poor children's access to food through the National School Lunch Program.There's more:
As part of Wednesday's announcement, the Obama administration also shared its plan to include a provision in the president's 2017 budget, which would allocate $12 billion over 10 years to the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (Summer EBT) program, which helps supplement food purchases during the summer, when children are out of school. Currently, fewer than 4 million of the nearly 22 million low-income children who are enrolled in the school-lunch program receive free and reduced-price meals when school is out of session.That's right: paying for free food when children aren't in school!
