St. Louis Public Radio
Tanjela Jones, programs director for the Child Core Foundation, readies snacks at an apartment complex in Festus in June 2018. Most drop-in sites like this where kids can easily get meals did not operate last summer.
Kids will be able to get out of the house more easily this summer. And as they return to camps, rec centers and summer school, nutrition programs will be able to get ham sandwiches and cartons of milk into their hands.
After one of the largest feeding programs in the country public schools closed last spring, food insecurity and
hunger shot up, researchers at Northwestern University found. As school lets out for this summer, there is less panic among child welfare agencies about kids going hungry, though there’s still the concern.