Families are applying for free school meals for the first time as they contend with high food costs and tight budgets.
Though East Hampton is a solidly middle-class town in Connecticut, dozens of families are applying for free school meals for the first time as they contend with high food costs and tight budgets.
Like their peers in most of the US, East Hampton children soon will no longer automatically receive breakfast and lunch at school without charge as they have for the past two years. That's because Congress in June did not extend the Covid-19 pandemic waivers that had expanded free school meals to all students, regardless of income.Many East Hampton, Connecticut, parents applying for free or reduced-price school meals for the first time aren't eligible because they earn too much.
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