State funding will feed summer meals to 900K students [Video]

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — At the Boys and Girls Club in Grand Rapids, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Lansing, announced new funding to help school-age children receive summer meals while school is not in session.

The new funding will bridge the “summer hunger gap” by providing meals for an estimated 900,000 students in Michigan and 21 million nationwide, according to a release from the senator’s office.

The outgoing senior senator talked about the importance of making sure children have adequate nutrition even when free school lunches are not available.

“The challenge for all of us, the challenge actually for our country, is that we have more than 44 million people who struggle with hunger every day in our country. A million, in fact, are Michiganders and one out of six kids … in Michigan don’t know where they’re going to have their next meal,” Stabenow said.

Stabenow said she and her colleagues …