Too many families are struggling to meet the basics, including putting food on the table. In many working families, children are going hungry or eating cheap, less nutritious food, so their parents can scrape together enough money to make the rent.
Children’s nutrition programs have been helping to alleviate hunger and food insecurity since 1966. President Harry Truman called them a measure of national security to safeguard the health and well-being of the nation’s children.
William Bruce
Everett
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