that have enabled schools across the United States to provide free breakfast and lunch to students during the coronavirus pandemic are set to expire, potentially leaving millions of children without easy access to critical meals."Summer—already the hungriest time of year—will be particularly hard for kids when many summer sites will be unable to open."
"There is no urgency and political appetite to even have this conversation," Jillien Meier, director of the No Kid Hungry campaign,'s Rachel Cohen on Wednesday."Frankly this is not a priority for Congress and the White House. People are really focused on having a 'return to normal'... folks aren't talking about it and they have no clue that this crisis is looming.
First approved in 2020, the waivers have given the U.S. Department of Agriculture authority to lift regulatory obstacles to universal school meals such as income-based eligibility requirements, which entailed paperwork and other onerous red tape.