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(New York Jewish Week) — A historian once called Kathy Goldman “twentieth-century New York’s most important food activist.”

This year 35 states will participate in a $2.5 billion federal nutrition program that will help low-income parents buy groceries for their children when free school meals are unavailable during the summer months. But Texas, which has 3.8 million children eligible for the program, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has opted not to […]

This year 35 states will participate in a $2.5 billion federal nutrition program that will help low-income parents buy groceries for their children when free school meals are unavailable during the summer months.[San Marcos, TX] [Hays County news] News San Marcos News, San Marcos Record [Texas State]

Texas is passing on a total of $450 million in federal tax dollars towards eligible low-income families, according to the USDA.

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