In a new move designed to help further combat food insecurity in America’s youth, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced a new plan to help feed the more than 30 million at-risk, hungry school children over the summer months while school is not in session.
“If children and children’s learning and children’s health is a priority for us in this country, then we need to fund our priorities,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in an interview with NPR’s All Things Considered. “I think it’s an important day.”
Corey Turner of NPR has reported that “the move expands what’s known as the Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer, or P-EBT, program into the summer months.”
