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Meal programs and food banks chip away at U.S. child hunger

Arcadia Elementary School students eat lunch in November 2016 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Several families in the Kalamazoo Public Schools participate in the National School Lunch Program, which offers free or discounted lunches for low-income students.

The team at the Capital Area Food Bank, which serves Washington, D.C., and the surrounding region, knows full well the importance of addressing the issue of food insecurity.

Of the 32 million meals the food bank distributed in the last fiscal year, it reports that at least 2.8 million went to children, with some 422,500 youth served. That

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