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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is trying to gather support for legislation aimed at reducing child food insecurity nationwide. The Universal School Meals Program Act of 2021 is part of the upcoming Child Nutrition Reauthorization being negotiated by the Senate Agriculture Committee. Gillibrand says the program would make all school meals permanently free.
“The burden -plus the stigma some children or families fear- of being labeled poor by their classmates often makes eligible families decide not to participate.”
Gillibrand says that one in four children in New York State are fighting food insecurity, and likewise in rural counties, where one in three children are food insecure. Locally, Syracuse City School District Food and Nutrition Director Rachel Murphy told WAER News last summer the district served up to 20,000 meals a day. It was recently announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will continue to feed 34 million children nationwide this summe