The number of children participating in Mississippi’s federally-funded summer lunch program decreased between 2016 and 2017, meaning thousands of children in the state may have missed out on lunch last summer, according to a new report by the Food Research & Action Center.

Read The Hechinger Report’s full analysis here.

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Mississippi sees drop in number of children getting free summer lunches

by Jackie Mader, The Hechinger Report, Mississippi Today
July 30, 2018

<h1>Mississippi sees drop in number of children getting free summer lunches</h1> <p class="byline">by Jackie Mader, The Hechinger Report, Mississippi Today <br />July 30, 2018</p> <p>The number of children participating in Mississippi’s federally-funded summer lunch program decreased between 2016 and 2017, meaning thousands of children in the state may have missed out on lunch last summer, according to a new <a href="https://hechingerreport.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=66c306eebb323868c3ce353c1&amp;id=68315f2745&amp;e=995457ed2b">report</a> by the Food Research &amp; Action Center.</p> <p><a href="https://mailchi.mp/hechingerreport.org/mississippi-learning-thousands-of-children-in-need-not-getting-summer-meals?e=995457ed2b">Read The Hechinger Report’s full analysis here.</a></p> <p>This <a target="_blank" href="https://mississippitoday.org/2018/07/30/mississippi-sees-drop-in-number-of-children-getting-free-summer-lunches/">article</a> first appeared on <a target="_blank" href="https://mississippitoday.org">Mississippi Today</a> and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.<img src="https://i0.wp.com/mississippitoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/MT_square-thumb.jpg?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1" style="width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;"><img id="republication-tracker-tool-source" src="https://mississippitoday.org/?republication-pixel=true&post=174824&amp;ga3=UA-75003810-1" style="width:1px;height:1px;"></p> Copy to Clipboard

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