There is an overwhelming need for a national school meal program, according to food policy experts: 'School food is an essential service. COVID and high inflation increasingly put more pressure on both personal and food school budgets,' says one expert.
Lindsay CampbellStudents at Madison Crossing Elementary School in Canton, Miss., eat lunch in the school’s cafeteria in August 2019.
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