Campus meals pantries and Rep. Michael Hale's invoice try to deal with challenge affecting 30% of state college students
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A big share of scholars on Tennessee school campuses are asking the identical query: The place will my subsequent meal come from?
And the numbers are staggering.
In line with a report from the Tennessee Fee on Greater Schooling, an estimated 30% of Tennessee school college students expertise meals insecurity sooner or later of their school careers.
That determine, which is above the nationwide common, didn't sit nicely with Tennessee state Rep. Michael Hale.
“With a difficulty as stigmatized as meals insecurity, we make it a precedence to take motion to deal with the issue,” the Smithville Republican mentioned.
Hale sponsored Home Invoice 1914 this yr to deal with meals insecurity. The invoice would set up the Starvation-Free Campus Grant Program, which, partially, offers grants to establishments of upper training to deal with scholar starvation.