Consider this: Connecticut Foodshare, citing estimates provided by Feeding America, reports that more than 490,000 residents in Connecticut “struggle with hunger” and that more than 131,000 children are food insecure.
Federal funds that have kept free meals in Connecticut schools afloat since August are drying up, and, for the first time in more than two years, students will have to start paying for food. As school nutrition workers and Connecticut families grapple with the new reality, anti-hunger advocates are pushing for policy that would reintroduce universal free school breakfast and lunch to the state.