KSL TV
SALT LAKE CITY – In the nine months since schools closed, one of the widest-felt impacts of losing in-person school, has meant thousands of children losing two meals every day.
When schools closed in March at the start of the pandemic, more than in-person learning stopped. So did in-person lunch, and in some cases, breakfast, for thousands of Salt Lake students.
"The national school lunch program is so important to so many students and so many families," said concerned parent Jamie Slack.
Slack has worked for 15 years with the U.S. Agriculture Department, the agency that oversees the school lunch program. She's also a parent in the Salt Lake City School District.