In Alabama, 13% of Alabama families with children told the Census Bureau that they either sometimes or often didn’t have enough food to eat, and an estimated 485,000 children benefited from the state’s most recent round of P-EBT payments.
by researchers at Harvard University and the University of Washington found that pandemic programs to provide meals to kids when schools closed reached millions of families and helped address food insecurity.
“The pandemic led to waivers and additional flexibilities for schools over the last couple of years that allowed many families to receive meals at no cost. Some of those flexibilities are ending as the new school year begins, and we’re heading into a new shift,” said Eleni Towns, associate director of the No Kid Hungry Campaign.
According to the August report, P-EBT reached 26.9 million of the 30 million children whose families qualified based on income, while 8 million children not eligible for P-EBT benefitted from grab-and-go meals, an effort which provided a total of 429 million meals a month over the last two years.
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