FRAC Chat, August 8, 2018
“Have there been times in the past 12 months when you did not have enough money to buy food that you or your family needed?”
FRAC’s recent report on food hardship found that households with children answered “yes” to that question at a much higher rate than households without children, 18.4 percent compared to 14.1 percent. Given our nation’s high child poverty rates, this is not a surprise. The data alone, however, only begin to capture how much harm America is causing its children because of the poverty and hunger rates they suffer.
Read more at http://frac.org/blog/school-meals-help-equip-students-success.
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