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500,000 Kids Could Lose Free School Lunches Under Changes to Food Stamp Program

HeadlineOct 17, 2019

Up to a half a million children could lose access to free school lunches under the Trump administration’s proposed changes to the food stamp program. That’s according to a newly released analysis by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Critics of Trump’s proposal say the new analysis shows the plan is “even worse than we had feared.”

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