Philadelphia kids and teens will soon have access to free meals through the summer, as the city's Office of Children and Families is set to open hundreds of youth meal sites this summer, beginning on June 21.
stab stabenow the heads of the committee on the childrens nutrition reauthorization bill that s up. and both were very encouraging about passing this bill especially senator robert. he looked at me and said you can get on cnn, you can say we re doing this. so i m really happy to report that. and also we talked about ways that the bill could be improved. and that was very heartening as well. you know, for instance currently if a kid comes to a summer meal site and it s raining, a summer storm breaks out, the kid isn t allowed to take that food home with them. they ve got to go home without being fed. and all that food is thrown away. so we want to turn that around, change that. summer meals, bill, you and i have talked about this before, summer meals incredibly important. even though there s no school, the kids still got to eat. that s right. so many kids are used to getting their meals at school. we ve got 22 million kids in the country who get a free or