FRAC Releases 2012 Hunger Doesn't Take a Vacation Report

From the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC): 

"Fewer low-income children participated in the nation’s summer nutrition programs in July 2011 than a year earlier, according to Hunger Doesn’t Take a Vacation, an analysis by the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC). Only one in seven of the low-income students who depended on the National School Lunch Program during the regular 2010-2011 school year received summer meals in July 2011."

Read more from the press release and view a map with state rankings of participation and how New York State compares to others. 

According to the report, New York ranks high in the nation for connecting children with summer nutrition; for every 100 students eating free or reduced-price school lunch, 23.1 students ate summer lunch with the Summer Food Service Program.  Yet, this still means that a tremendous number of low-income students may be experiencing a nutrition void over the summer.