When faced with financial challenges, research shows that seniors receiving meal assistance often share their food with their pets. (kcpetproject.org)
Many teens seem to be unaware of their eligibility for free school meals, or their families may not have applied for meal assistance. (thelunchtray.com)
But that data overlap isn't an insurmountable problem (the USDA has issued a guidance document to help districts sort through the issue) and taking advantage of the CEP makes good sense in a district like ours, where over 80 % of our children live close enough to the poverty line to qualify for school meal assistance. (thelunchtray.com)