“Some suggest the responsibility for providing universal free meals lies with the federal government. But federal officials haven’t done their part, so the state must. The State Senate and Assembly should include a universal free school meals program in their proposed budgets. Hochul has to make sure it ends up in the final version of the spending plan.”
The state should fund school meals for students
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