Kids in NC could slip into poverty, hunger if popular COVID school lunch waiver expires, nonprofit says
“’We feel like school meals (are) just a critically important, powerful, effective way to mitigate some of the hardships that are continuing, that are going to continue to face kids and families in America,’ said Jamie Bussel, a senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Nearly 90 percent of school districts took advantage of a waiver that allowed them to serve meals for the 2021-22 school year at no charge and provided higher rates of reimbursement, a USDA survey found.”