BELTON, Texas (KWTX) – Local school children can still eat school meals for free, at least for now. And that is adding some worry to area food pantries already working extra hard.An extension to school meal waivers is in effect, called the Keep Kids Fed Act, which President Joe Biden signed on Saturday.It essentially keeps summer meals free for all students throughout the country. But that free part has a hard stop at the end of the summer.’We definitely see that there’s going to be a hunger cliff at the end of summer,’ said Alicia Jallah, executive director of Helping Hands Ministry in Belton.
Summer meal waivers are extended but food pantries still worrying about future
