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Wyoming first lady and schools officials press committee to study childhood food insecurity and summer feeding gaps
Summary
First Lady Jenny Gordon and State Superintendent Megan Degenfeller urged the Joint Education Committee to add school nutrition and summer feeding to interim study topics, citing gaps in access to meals for thousands of Wyoming children and limits of current federal options.
First Lady Jenny Gordon told the Joint Education Committee on March 5 that childhood food insecurity in Wyoming leaves “over 83,000 citizens” facing hunger and that “35,000 of our kids” participate in free or reduced-price lunch programs, with about 5,000 children attending schools that do not offer the National School Lunch Program.
Gordon said charities and volunteers distribute food statewide, and that her nonprofit, Wyoming Hunger Initiative, has distributed more than $3,000,000 over six years; she also noted the Food Bank of Wyoming distributes about 28,000 meals per day. “When you see a fire, you don’t say…
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