Are you ready for Boston? We can’t wait to debut our new sandwiches, breakfasts and snacks! In fact, we have so many new products to launch at ANC, July 13-16, that we’ll have three stations at Booth #933: 1) Breakfast 2) Afterschool and 3) Sandwich Innovations.
For the first time in a decade, the number of low-income children eating summer meals saw a substantial increase year-over-year, according to a new report released by FRAC. Nearly three million children participated in the Summer Nutrition Programs in July 2013, a one-year increase of 5.7 percent.
The last bell is about to ring and kids are heading out the school doors to celebrate summer vacation. However, many will be returning to schools, camps and other programs where they can still receive a meal.
For every seven low-income students who depended on the National School Lunch Program during the regular 2011-2012 school year, only one child received summer meals in July 2012. This disappointing news was reported in FRAC’s June 2013 Hunger Doesn’t Take a Vacation.