There's not that many kids that eat in the summer. Sometimes the kids and their parents go without. In this article it explained that only 3 million kids eat lunch at the summer programs out of the 12 million there are. This is an Enormous number of children aren't eating the meals that are required to stay healthy.
There is a lot of reason how this is true. “ The agriculture Department estimated in 1999 that twelve million children were hungry or at risk of going hungry.” “ A group of big-city mayors released a study showing that in 2000, request for food assistance from families increased almost 20 percent.” This is a major problem to America and it's shocking to hear about so many families having to live their