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Around this time each year, women and girls from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation gather wild celery. They say their ancestors come back through the plant, and the ceremonial dig marks the arrival of spring.
As food meals being served in school decreases due to eligibility and payments, the number of children going to school hungry rises.
America’s schools say kids are hungry — just as pandemic-era benefit programs have lapsed. There is growing concern about the effects on kids’ ability to
Congress temporarily made school meals free to all schoolkids but since that ended last fall, the need has only seemed to grow.
As pandemic-era free meal programs end, children at schools are becoming hungry. Teachers around the country are worried it may affect their education.