ST. PAUL (AP) Minnesota’s program to provide free school breakfasts and lunches to all students regardless of income is costing the state more than expect
State leaders recently said free meals will cost a lot more than initially budgeted $81 million more over the next two years and $95 million in the two years after that
Feeding America crunched the numbers and discovered that every dollar donated to one of their food banks results in 10 meals. A pound of food donated, on the other hand, results in about one meal.